Welcome to another episode of Lurie Breaks It Down, a podcast where we dig deeply to connect the dots on the issues that shape our world.

I'm Lurie Daniel Favors, author, activist, attorney, and the host of the Lurie Daniel Favors show on Sirius XM's Urban View, Channel 126. If you like what you're about to hear, go ahead and give us five stars and then tell everybody that you know. And if you don't like it, just, child, keep it to yourself and pray our strength. Okay? Thank you so much. Also, don't forget to check out my YouTube page, Lurie Daniel Favor's Media, where you should subscribe, like, and share because then you'll get notified when I post videos from my show, which I do just about every single day and when I go live with my YouTube audience. Now, before we get to any of those things, we have a ritual that we engage in on this show every

single day. And this is a ritual that ensures that before we get to the heaviness of the news,

so that ritual is called a moment of gratitude. And it is one that allows us to intentionally

sit in and curate a space where we are tapping into joy, gratitude, and appreciation as our primary emotional

resonances.

And the reason we do that is because when you are rooted in gratitude, our lived experience

has confirmed and the science has also confirmed that you cannot be simultaneously trapped

by fear.

And considering we are going to have to call on the bravery that each of us have capacity

to tap into in order to do this work, that's going to be important.

We also love to cultivate a sense of joy and appreciation because we know that when you do those things, it's very hard to feel trapped by fear and loneliness.

And those are emotions that we cannot allow to prevent us from doing the amazing work of trying to make this world a better place.

So the ritual is called a moment of gratitude, super, super simple.

It goes a little something like of the yes.

In just a minute, you're going to hear music.

And when you hear that music, it's going to be an invitation to you to join the rest of us.

Because when we hear it, we are going to collectively begin taking the slowest, deepest, most lung capacity expanding,

joyful heart invigorating, troubled mind cleansing and weary soul, uplifting the most amazingly juicy

breath. As we kick off our most important segment of every single day, it is time for our moment of gratitude. Everyday folks, we got to do it. And every day, folks, we got to do it. And every day it matters.

Once again, shout out to the team.

Shout out to the Urban View family, the Nubians, the YouTube family, the Instagram family,

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