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. Lots of stuff we got to get to, lots of conversation to be had. And of course,

you already know what I'm finis saying before we get to any of it. We also have a ritual on this show.

And this ritual is pretty significant because it is one that encourages us to intentionally

curate a set of emotions that are going to be more optimistic in nature.

And those emotions are joy, gratitude, and appreciation.

And the reason joy, gratitude, and appreciation are so important is because when we are rooted

in these emotions, we cannot also be trapped by fear, loneliness, and depression.

And that really matters because did you hear me talk about what

we're going to discuss today? It's heavy. So the ritual is pretty simple. It is so simple. In fact,

it goes a little something like this. In just a minute, you're going to hear music. And that music

is going to be an invitation to you to join the rest of us because we, upon hearing it,

will collectively begin taking the slowest,

the deepest, the most lung capacity expanding,

joyful heart and vigorate,

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.

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

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