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. You all know that we do the work of Black Talklandia here every day, and that can be kind of difficult. It can be kind of difficult. And because of that, we have a ritual on these airwaves that allows us to intentionally curate a sense of joy, gratitude, and appreciation. And we have to be intentional about the emotions that we choose to entertain because otherwise we can be easily taken over by circumstances and that's not good

for our emotional health it's not good for our mental health and it's not good for our spiritual

health again taking some moments to be intentional about your wellness journey is so important it's

going to keep you sane during this era that we find ourselves in it's going to keep you focused

and intentional about how you

show up for yourself and for others. And so we have, as I mentioned this ritual, it's called a moment

of gratitude and it goes a little something like this. In just a minute, you're going to hear

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

because we will then collectively begin taking the slowest, the deepest, the most lung

capacity expanding, joyful heart, 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 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, we got to do it. And every day it matters. Shout out to the Urban View family, the Nubians. I am just grateful that every Monday through Friday we get an opportunity to do this thing called Urban View together. And today we are continuing, as I mentioned earlier, our focus on attitude and really with a slight shift. What are you

carrying around with you is the question for today's moment of gratitude? What are you carrying

in your spirit? What sort of energy are you carrying in your heart? What sort of emotions are you

carrying within your mind, your body, your soul? What sort of thoughts are you carrying around with you? How are you

entertaining your mental space? These are questions we have to ask. And not just because this is a moment

of gratitude. We have to ask ourselves, what sort of emotional resonance, what sort of thoughts are we

carrying around within the ecosystem of our mental health? How are we carrying and what are we carrying?

And those questions matter because if you're not sure about what you're carrying,

when life jostles you around a bit, you're not going to be sure as to what's going to come out.

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