#InspireASister Roxie Kaur Mealey

Roxie Kaur Mealey


I've always been a very spiritual person, I was raised as a Catholic and attended Catholic school until I was 16. During my teen years I began to understand that I was not a Christian as I did not believe in what I was being taught, I liked the morals that were taught through the biblical stories but I didn't believe in the rest of what I was supposed to believe in.

Through my l...ove of witchcraft in film and story from when I was a child, I came to discover Paganism. It was appealing to me because of it's connection to nature and I was partially practicing and identifying as pagan until last year when I felt I was not gaining from the religion, I was meditating but had lost direction, I didn't believe in worshipping of gods and goddesses, I didn't believe that practice of magic in rituals resulted in anything, there wasn't much about myself that I could actually relate to paganism. I was interested in other religions such as Buddhism, Jainism and Hinduism and as much as I found them beautiful religions they didn't seem right for me.

I had started dating a Sikh convert, I'd never heard much of Sikhism before, all I knew was that Sikhs wore a turban, kirpan and kacheras but had no idea what the meaning of those things. I slowly started to learn bits about the basics of Sikhism through the guy I was dating and through reading up about it all because I wanted to understand this religion which he loved and was of great importance to him. I began to discover that the beliefs of Sikhism were actually akin to my own; who/what god is, reincarnation, karma, how we should live our lives... everything I was learning about Sikhism fitted me perfectly and since I started to learn, I haven't been able to stop. I started to do simran, paath and listen to kirtan, it surprised me how much it made me feel peace and happiness, and is giving me the spiritual guidance that I'd lost.

There are wonderful changes that have happened in my life already since discovering Sikhi, I have managed to quit smoking and drinking which I did excessively and not proudly, I had numerous piercings which I have removed as my self acceptance is growing.

I'm still very new to Sikhism and there is so much I need and want to learn, and I am still yet to even make my first visit to a Gurdwara, but I feel blessed to have found the Sikh path I'm now on =]See More— with Roxie Kaur Mealey.   Courtesy of Roxie Kaur Mealey and Knowledge for SIkhs (facebook) http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=200156510128398&set=a.174112269399489.56251.100004021514536&type=1&theater