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. We have a ritual, and that ritual is called a moment of gratitude and it is designed to

ensure that as we approach the very heavy work of Black Talklandia, that we are doing so with

the spirit of joy, gratitude, and appreciation. And it's very important because you want to make

sure that your spiritual health is as positively attuned as it can be. You want to make sure that

your emotional health is as balanced as it can be. And for your mental health, you want to make sure that you are conducting and engaging in wellness practices that will allow you to be as empowered as possible. This ritual, again, called a moment of gratitude is pretty simple. It is so simple. In fact, it goes a little something like a little in just a minute. You're going to hear music. That music is going to be an invitation to you to join the rest of us, as we will collectively

begin taking upon hearing said music the slowest, the deepest, the most long capacity

expanding, joyful heart, invigorate, and troubled, mind cleansing, and weary, so 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. Every day, folks, every day we got to do it.

And every day we got to do it and every day it matters.

Shout out to the team.

Shout out to the Urban View family, the Nubians, everybody in the podcast community,

the YouTube community, we are grateful and we appreciate you.

I want to talk today a little bit about a concept known as the butterfly effect.

And the butterfly effect is something that we often mistake and, you know, don't often necessarily

understand it as it really is.

But the idea basically behind the butterfly effect is this notion that very small, trivial events

could result ultimately in something far more significant, meaning that when a

butterfly flaps its wings, that tiny pressure or change in air pressure can essentially cause a tornado

somewhere else on the planet, right? And so while there was a film that this was, you know,

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