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 also have a ritual on this show, and this ritual is one that allows us to do the work

of the heavy while essentially not being overwhelmed by the heavy. And today it might feel like

being overwhelmed is the easier option. It's often that way, but we make sure that on this show,

we intentionally curate a sense of joy, gratitude, and appreciation so that

regardless of what's happening in the world around us, we can do what is necessary to focus,

to ensure that we are making our best choices, we are living in alignment with our purpose,

and to ensure that we are able to change the world.

The ritual is called moment of gratitude and it's pretty simple.

So simple, in fact, it goes a little something like this. In just a minute, you're going to hear

music. The music's going to be an invitation to you to join the rest of us because we will, upon

hearing it, collectively begin taking the slowest and deepest and most lung capacity expanding,

joyful heart, invigorate, and 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. Every day, folks, every day we got to do it, and every day it matters.

And since today is the first of the month, and we are moving into a new area of focus,

I want you all to take a listen to this clip that's talking about the fact that for

some reason, we in the global majority, have been moving really different. We've been moving

different and it's going to be important that we continue to move different because of everything

that we're going to have to unpack and discuss today. This was shared by an Instagram user by the name of Good for My Soul One.

Good for My Soul One is the name of the person who shared this. And I want you to take a listen to

this and consider how this should impact all of the decisions that we make moving forward.

I don't think that I will ever get over the phenomenon that is taking place in the

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