Reddit mentions of Ainslie Meares on Meditation: Dissolve tension, anxiety & pain.Tap your inner wealth. Includes Relief Without Drugs* & poems written by Meares.

I'd highly recommend you check out Ainslie Meares on Meditation ( https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ainslie-Meares-Meditation-Dissolve-pain-Tap/dp/0646966936/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= ). I'd been plugging away with a couple of meditation practices over the last few years (breath awareness and mantra based techniques) with varying degrees of success, but a few weeks ago I saw a dude in this sub recommend this book. Since then I've smashed through it and started practicing the technique, and good lord I'm feeling better. My general sense of anxiety and stress has completely dissipated, giving me back my sleep, and I feel like I want to reconnect with people I've left by the wayside in recent years. Other side effects (probably due to not being stressed and getting proper sleep again) include a noticeable jump in my workouts and physical fitness, a greater sense of empathy but also critical thinking without getting sucked into cyclical thought patterns, and just a more general enthusiasm for life.

the technique itself is probably one of the simplest I've ever read about, so simple it almost seems too good to be true. I'm about to start my second read through to make sure I've got the nuances of it down. this is my new 'go to' whenever anyone asks me about getting into or deepening meditation. It's been written from the perspective of a mental health professional who did his own investigations, firstly into hypnosis and then later into meditation.