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The Facts to Relax

How to Cope with the Stress of Infertility

By Gwen Morrison

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Domar holds "infertility retreat weekends," as well as operating the very popular 10-week, group sessions for women with infertility issues. Women and couples come to the retreats from all over the country to learn stress management strategies.

Tools to combat stress and promote relaxation include deep breathing, progressive muscle relaxation, meditation, yoga, exercise and a variety of other techniques. (As always, it is best to discuss these techniques with your physician before beginning a relaxation program.)

Domar explains that when you elicit the relaxation response by implementing one or more of the described relaxation methods, your heart rate, blood pressure and breathing rates decrease. "You feel more relaxed and less anxious," she says. "Individuals who elicit the relaxation response on a regular basis report that they not only feel more relaxed and less anxious during the actual relaxation, but also feel calmer throughout the day."

More Than Relaxation?
"Mind/body approaches learned in the context of a fertility problem offer much more than a relaxation program," says Blitzer. "Unlike a meditation or a yoga class, the mind/body approach allows us to focus on the specific issues related to infertility and then to draw from the major mind/body techniques, include emotional support and connection with others and more."

Though the mind/body approach to medicine is a fairly new phenomenon in the United States, it has been established in scientific literature that our emotional states impact the quality of our health.


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