Application of Mindfulness-Based Psychological Interventions in Infertility

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Living mindfully helps one gain a deeper understanding into realities of life. It enables people to witness suffering, desire, attachments, and impermanence without any fear, anxiety, anger, or despair. This is considered the hallmark of true psychological insight. As a skill, mindfulness can be inculcated by anyone. Mindfulness helps in attending, getting aware and understanding experiences in a compassion and open-minded way. Research suggests that applying mindfulness in daily life has been known to tame our emotional mind and enabled people to perceive things “as they are” without ascribing expectations, judgments, cynicism, or apprehensions to them. This review unravels the therapeutic power of mindfulness meditation in the context of infertility distress. It serves to integrate the evidence on the effectiveness of mindfulness-based psychological interventions to improve the emotional well-being and biological outcomes in Infertility.

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Journal ID (nlm-ta): J Hum Reprod Sci

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): J Hum Reprod Sci

Journal ID (publisher-id): JHRS

Title: Journal of Human Reproductive Sciences

Publisher: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow (India )

ISSN (Print): 0974-1208

ISSN (Electronic): 1998-4766

Publication date (Print): Jan-Mar 2020

Publication date (Electronic): 07 April 2020

Volume: 13

Issue: 1

Pages: 3-21

Affiliations

[1]Department of Psychiatry, Kasturba Medical College, MAHE, Manipal, Karnataka, India

[1 ]Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Manipal Assisted Reproduction Centre, Kasturba Medical College, MAHE, Manipal, Karnataka, India

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Address for correspondence: Dr. Ansha Patel, Room Number 33, 3 ^rd Floor, Main OPD Building, Department of Psychiatry, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal - 576 104, Karnataka, India. E-mail: ansha_patel@ 123456yahoo.co.in

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Publisher ID: JHRS-13-3

DOI: 10.4103/jhrs.JHRS_51_19

PMC ID: 7295259

PubMed ID: 32577063

SO-VID: 324c07fa-df4c-46fd-8eb8-6550847367f9

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Date received : 09 April 2019

Date revision received : 25 June 2019

Date accepted : 22 November 2019

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