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 something we got to do first. And that thing that we got to do first is a ritual that we hold sacred on this show.

And it is a ritual

that we hold sacred on this show. And it's a ritual that allows us to intentionally

curate an energy that is going to allow us to tap into a bit of joy, gratitude,

and appreciation. And that's really important because what we have learned is that when

we are rooted in joy,

gratitude, and appreciation, we cannot also be trapped by fear, loneliness, and depression.

And that really matters because when you are doing the work of trying to make the world

a better place, it really does require you to be intentional about the emotional energies

that you're carrying, about the types of thoughts that you're

entertaining. And so every day on this show, we have a ritual. It is a fairly simple ritual. It is

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

hear some music. And the music that you hear is going to be an invitation to you

to join the rest of us because when we hear said music, we will collectively begin taking the

slowest, the deepest, the most lung capacity expanding, the most joyful heart invigorating,

the most troubled mind cleansing and weary soul uplifting, the most amazingly juicy breath.

As we collectively kick off the 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.

Shout out to the team.

...