anxiety over wudhu

Sometimes muslims experience anxiety and excessive worrying over keeping their wudhu. ignore these worries, as they're just from the shaitan.

remember that your wudhu is valid until you are 100% sure that you passed gas - you actually have to hear the sound or feel the sensations of passing gas.

simply thinking that you passed gas is not good enough.

tips in defeating anxiety

tips

1. start at 0% and then build up from there
2. take one step at a time
3. take one small imperfect step

defeating perfectionism
perfectionism can cause anxiety. yes its important to have ihsan (see the earlier blog post about ihsan), but you need to start at 0% imperfection and build up from there.

perfectionism can cause delay-ism. perfectinoism is driven by anxiety, and anxiety is driven by fear. shaitan can drive fears within us, which causes us to delay, procastinate. when we procastinate, shaitan wins. see the connection between anxiety, perfectionism procastination and shaitan?

tips in defeating perfectionism

don't ask yourself "when can i finish?" ask yourself "when can i start"?

don't dread tasks and work. don't say "i have to do this" but rather say "i choose to do this"