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 got a lot to get to this morning. And of course, before we get to any of it, we also have a ritual on this show.

And this is a ritual that is pretty significant. audience. We got a lot to get to this morning. And of course, before we get to any of it, we also

have a ritual on this show. And this is a ritual that is pretty significant because it's a

ritual that allows us to regardless of what's happening in the world around us and regardless

of what's happening in the news that we're covering, in the stories that we're sharing, and in the

overall discussions that we have, regardless of any of the

potential negative circumstances that either of those elements bring into our lives, we have a ritual

on this show that allows us to be intentionally and proactively focused in a bit of energy that

is going to jush up a sense of joy, gratitude, and appreciation. And we have learned through lived experience,

and science has confirmed for us that when we do the work of rooting ourselves in a sense of joy,

gratitude, and appreciation, we cannot be trapped by fear, loneliness, and depression. And that really

matters because have you seen the work that we have to do here in Black Talklandia it is massive it is significant and it's very important that we do the work of reminding ourselves

of our power and so the ritual that we use here on this show for that memory and for that rootedness

in our power is called the moment of gratitude and it goes a little something like this in just just a minute, you're going to hear music.

And when you hear that music, it's going to be an invitation to you to join the rest of us,

as we will collectively begin taking the slowest, the deepest,

the most lung capacity expanding and 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, it is every day we got to do it.

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