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. So we got a lot to unpack today, a lot to get to this morning. And of course, before we

get to any of it, we also have a ritual that we use on this show. And this ritual is pretty important

because it is one that allows us to sit in a space of emotions that we choose. Right. And that's

important because doing the work of Black Talk Landia's heavy work, doing the work of just

navigating life under any

circumstances, but certainly the circumstances in which we find ourselves today, that is heavy

work. And so we want to make sure that we are intentionally curating a set of emotions that will

allow us to tap into joy, gratitude, and appreciation. Because we know both from the experience

and confirmation from the science that

when we are rooted for example in gratitude we cannot simultaneously be trapped by fear when we are rooted

in joy gratitude and appreciation it's much easier to navigate out of fear loneliness and depression

and so because the work of black talklandia and our personal evolution requires us to show up

for each other for ourselves we employ the moment of gratitude ritual every single day.

And it is pretty simple.

It is so simple.

In fact, it goes a little something like this.

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 because when we hear it, we are going to collectively begin taking the slowest, the deepest, and most lung capacity expanding, joyful heart

and vigor, invigorate, and troubled mind cleansing and weary soul uplifting, the most amazingly

juicy breath that you've ever taken with a couple million people at once. As we kick off

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