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. This ritual, which we call a moment of gratitude, is pretty significant. It is one that

allows us to intentionally tap into something that is going to give us a bit of joy, a bit of

gratitude and appreciation. These emotions in particular are important because we have learned that

when we are tapped into joy, gratitude, and appreciation, we cannot also be trapped by

fear, loneliness loneliness and depression

and that that really really matters the ritual is pretty simple it is so simple in fact

it goes a little something a like a little yes in just a minute you're going to hear

music that music's going to be an invitation to you to join the rest of us because

when we hear it we are going to collectively begin taking the slowest the deepest the most lung capacity expanding the most joyful heart invigorate and 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. 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,

and everybody who is also a part of our podcast community, because now we share our moments of

gratitude every day with our podcast family. So shout out to all of you listening to this on

Larry breaks it down. But today we are going to return to the words of somebody who's pretty

dope and I've begun following them

because I think they're amazing and we've played their clips on these airwaves before and this is

nidra towab you guys may recall that we have talked about this person before they are doing

phenomenal things with when it pertains to mental health and just helping people to really just

show up as their best selves and one of the things that they talked about in this most recent clip that we're

going to share with you today is what happens when there is a shift. What happens when there

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