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. 2020 Feb 25;14(1):10–16. doi: 10.22074/ijfs.2020.5785

Table 1.

Mindfulness training taken from Crane R. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (20)


Session Goals Practical exercise per session Each session’s program Homework

1 Automated guidance Eating a raisin with mindfulness meditation on body checking Making a group, presenting the moral code of the method and group boundary, introducing participants, providing explanations about infertility and the resulting depression and the necessity of mindfulness training, explaining the automated guidance system 1. Concentration on body checking for 45 min
2. Attention to daily routines such as daily showers
3. Eating a meal once a week with mindfulness
2 Facing obstacles Body checking meditation, 10-minute breathing with meditation and mindfulness Thinking about practices and the exact feeling of each 1. Reviewing the previous session
2. 4-minute body checking meditation
3. 10-minute breathing with mindfulness
4. Focusing on continuous activity to experience a pleasant day or event
3 Breathing with mindfulness Conscious breathing and stretching practice, breathing and stretching with mindfulness 3-minute breathing, Identifying and recording pleasant experiences or unpleasant ones to be studied in the fourth session 1. Reviewing the previous session
2. Continuity and breathing exercises on days 1, 3 and 5 of a week
3. Practicing movements consciously on days 2, 4 and 6 in a week
4. Daily recording of pleasant experiences
5. Three minutes of breathing over three periods of time
4 Staying in the moment 5-Minute seeing or listening with mindfulness 3-minute breathing space, and walking with mindfulness Discovering unpleasant experiences, detecting and defining depression problems or alternate group focus. 1. Revewing the previous session
2. Creating relaxation and meditation
3. 3-minute normal breathing (3 times a day)
4. 3-minute patterning breathing ( as a meditative strategy while experiencing unpleasant feelings)
5 Acceptance and authorization of presence Awareness of breathing and body, emphasizing the perception of how to react to thoughts, feelings and body sensations. 3-minute breathing Reading Guest House poems by Rumi's works and identifying them in the group, practicing the discovery of reactions to normal patterns and the application of the potential talents of mindfulness skills to facilitate the response to the present-day experiences. 1. Reviewing previous session’s assignments.
2. Thinking in sitting position.
3. 3-minute normal breathing (three times a day)
4. Four minutes of patterned breathing (as a meditative strategy in the experience of unpleasant feelings)
5. Reopening (body doors) and entering the outside realm of the body (in the body)
6 Thoughts do not have a real origin Meditation sessions, awareness of breathing and body, highlighting the patient's problems during exercise and detecting their effects on the body and mind. Training in changing behaviors, thoughts, and attitudes, start the development of personal rehabilitation and activity plans, and preparing the participants for the end of the course 1. Reviewing the previous session’s assignments
2. 40 minutes of daily practice, with different combinations of the three main exercises
3. Exploring the use of short-term exercises
4. 3-minute normal breathing (three times a day)
5. 3-minute patterned breathing (as a meditative strategy when experiencing unpleasant feelings)
6. Reflection and work on the plan to prevent personal recurrence
7 How can we look after ourselves? -Meditation sessions- Awareness of breathing, organs, sounds, thoughts, and emotions.-3 minutes of breathing- Highlighting a problem during exercise and detecting its effect on the body and mind. Discovering the relationship between activity and mood, a general list of daily activities and considerations (emotional drainage) that empowers the body, exploring ways to increase activity (useful), recognizing relapses and activities that cause recurrence. 1. Reviewing previous session’s assignments
2. The breathing space in accordance with the routine as a coping strategy
3. Discovering a wa to do dexterous work after practice
4. Developing an early warning system for recurrence detection
5. Developing a practical plan that can be used in depressed moods
8 How to use these factors in future decision making End course body checking meditation Reviewing early warning system and practical plans (to use in high-risk relapsing time), reviewing all previous sessions, discussing the way of preserving motor power, developed in formal and informal exercises. End of course and acknowledgments. 1. Reviewing previous session’s assignments
2. Making questions to answer the personal reflections during the day
3. Doing homework(Mindfulness exercise with booklet study) and practice at home alone (21).