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. The moment of gratitude is a very sacred moment. It is an opportunity for us to make sure that

we are doing the work necessary of intentionally zuzing up emotions that are going to free us to do

the work. Right. And those emotions are joy, gratitude, and appreciation. And we know that not only

from the experience, but from the science, that when, for example, we are rooted in gratitude, we cannot be trapped by fear. How important is that? Like how significant is that, right? It's a whole cheat code to avoid getting trapped in fear. Sit in some gratitude. Think about the things that you are ultimately grateful for. And so that's one of the reasons why we have this ritual. It's a pretty simple ritual. It's when we do, as I said, every day. And it's so simple. In fact, it goes a little something like the is. 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, 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, it is time for our

moment of gratitude. Thank you. Every day, folks, every day we got to do it and every day it matters.

Shout out to the team.

Shout out to the Urban View family, the Nubians, the podcast community, the YouTube community, even y'all who still

be finding these clips on, you know, Instagram and TikTok, we appreciate all of y'all for making

your way into this space. And in keeping with our acknowledgement of Indigenous People's Heritage

Day, and again, that is a day that exists as a result of resistance, right? Because that's not the

original dedication for this day. And so I am so grateful that even being able to acknowledge

that it is indigenous people's day is its own form of resistance. And today I wanted to

take from the draw from the Proverbs and the spiritual wisdom of indigenous communities. And so today, and you know, maybe for the next couple of days, we'll see, we'll see how the spirit moves. I wanted to share with you some of the points of inspiration, some of the proverbs that we have gleaned from indigenous Americans. And what's interesting is that, one, calling them indigenous Americans, I just got to say, always always gives me a little bit of pause because it's like, it feels really weird. But I get it. I understand it. But also, I want to just remind us of an exercise that we had told ourselves we were going to do on Friday. Now, on Friday, you may recall that we had a conversation with Ebony Janice, and Ebony Janice gave us an assignment to spend five minutes, five to seven minutes,

imagining what freedom for black people looks like.

And hopefully you were able to do that

because I found it to be a fascinating exercise,

and I'm going to circle back to the indigenous wisdom

in just a second.

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