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 have some things that we still have to get to, including one of the most important

segments that we use every single day to make sure that as we explore the difficult topics

that we cover on this show in Black Talklandia, as we explore the challenging circumstances

we have experienced in our own lives, we know that no matter what day it is. If it is a day

ending and why, we have got to do the work of

rooting ourselves, enjoy gratitude and appreciation. Now those emotions we have selected in particular

as our emotions of focus because we have learned through lived experience and because the science

has confirmed for us that when you are rooted in, for example, gratitude,

you can't be trapped by fear.

When you are focused on joy and appreciation, really hard to get stuck with loneliness and depression.

So this ritual, which again, we call the moment of gratitude, is really important because it helps

us to do the most important part of the work that we are called here to do in Black Talklandia.

And that is to get into the proper energetic alignment so that we can be effective at doing the work of making this world better.

This ritual is pretty simple.

It is so simple.

In fact, it goes a little something like a little.

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 are going to collectively begin taking the slowest, the deepest, the most lung capacity

expanding, the most joyful heart invigorating trouble mind cleansing and weary, soul uplifting,

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