Spirituality means reverence for all life, inclusion, protection, and care ...

For me personally, being spiritual and living a spiritual life is of no benefit if I don't use it to make life better somehow for self and others. To this end, my courage, commitment, and devotion is a life of practical spirituality where I nourish mine and my family's body, mind, and spirit naturally through simple daily ways of well-being. The spirituality I practise is very Earth-bound and motherly, drawing on wisdom traditions and ancestral lineage strength and skill that I am refining and contributing to life. It is about broad, deep awareness and understanding our common ground, about wholeness and nourishing our natural diversity within this wholeness. I see that Nature is deeply intelligent and wise in creating balancing opposites, and strengths and skills that fulfill many roles in human nature's life. Directly noticing our own nature without judgement reveals beauty and intelligence. We are wise to treat our biological body and nature as sacred, and pay close attention to the constant feedback that our life-instrument gives us. Our biology is uncomplicated and unbiased about what is good and not good for us. We can recognise that our mind with thought and feeling is a fine instrument of perception, but not in charge of us. We can remember our wholeness and keep distance within to observe the life flowing through us, and choose.

I reflect on the Oxford Dictionary's definitions: 'Spiritual: of spirit as opposed to matter, of the soul.' ... and 'Spirit: animating or vital principle of person or animal, intelligent or immaterial part of person, soul.' Human nature has obviously pondered this for a long time and made some conclusions. I make sense of this by relating to the loyal steadfastness of my physical heart beating, and think of my spirit as the seed of inspiration and spark or pilot-light that started my heart beating and that keeps it beating constantly and reliably until the day I die. I find this a wonder in itself, like magic, a very mystical premise and reality that I physically experience and unconsciously rely on within me.

David Crow says a lovely thing, that 'our biological reality is deeply spiritual'. I find his "Listening to the Heart" meditations deeply helpful when I practise self-responsibility for self-care, and give myself presence to feel my pulse and open my heart with deep gratitude for my life-opportunity; to create and choose my sensory experience on Earth for a while, including creating new life as a mother. I use my mind with feeling capacity to listen to the quiet beating of my soul-light and foster every bit of love I am naturally born to embody and share. I notice what inspires and stirs my heart to power up my vital energy from within. "What do I have a heart for?" is a practical question to ask, before intention, choice, and using energy and action to create an outcome within life-time.

Ayurveda with Jyotish are time-tested sciences of direct observation that offer us the gifts of objective awareness and choice. We can use these frameworks to directly observe our own nature and be self-empowered to lead our own nourishing life of purpose. Along with their sister science of Yoga and the Vedic view of natural life on Earth, this holistic healing system upholds reverence for all life in practical ways. It resonates with my own mind and spirit for wholeness, and nourishing diversity within wholeness rather than creating division. At Blue Sparrow Ayurveda, I share these nourishing wisdom traditions to help mothers, fathers, their children, and individuals generally to nourish body, mind, and spirit naturally through daily life-practice ... Self-awareness is the first piece, to know what is predominant to balance, and to value natural strengths and skills. We support your individual inner harmony between body, mind, spirit; where inner harmony is a reflection of whole well-being. You then add to collective harmony, beginning within the natural foundations of parent-child relationship and family.