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 to get into the business of today. And that means we have to get started with our most important segment of the day.

Now, that for us is a segment that we call. audience. We have to get into the business of today, and that means we have to get started with our

most important segment of the day. Now, that for us is a segment that we call the moment of

gratitude. The moment of gratitude is an important part of our show. I call it the most important

part of our show, frankly, because it is the part of the show that recognizes that the work of

Black Talklandia is very difficult. And the work of just being a human in this reality

also extraordinarily difficult. And so we have a ritual that we use to intentionally allow us to tap into a set of emotions that we use to help frame and center our approach to either the issues we're going to discuss or the issues we're navigating in our personal lives. And those emotions are joy, gratitude, and appreciation.

Those emotions are significant because we have learned from lived experience and the science has

confirmed that when, for example, you are rooted in gratitude, you cannot be trapped by fear.

Did you know that?

Like, how amazing is it that we are biochemically structured so that fear and intense

gratitude cannot occupy the same space at the same time remember when lauren hill said two mcs cannot

occupy the same space at the same time it's against the laws of physics right fear and gratitude

cannot occupy the same space at the same time it's against the laws of however your body's made

so that's very important because that becomes then a tool joy and gratitude gratitude become tools not just for feeling better, but for effective resistance. And so the ritual is called a moment of gratitude and it is pretty simple. So simple, in fact, it goes a little something like a deal. Hit it. 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 will collectively begin taking the slowest,

the deepest and 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,

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