The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook by by Martha Davis, Elizabeth Robbins Eshelman, and Matthew McKay was recommended recently in Hope Reese's "Feeling Stressed? These 5 Books Can Help". It's rather pedestrian in style, and prone in places to false precision or overly-certain quick-fix prescriptions. But there are insights, like the list in Chapter 5, "Meditation":

• It is impossible to worry, fear, or hate when your mind is thinking about something other than the object of these emotions.
• It isn’t necessary to think about everything that pops into your head. You have the ability to choose which thoughts you will think about.
• The seemingly diverse contents of your mind really can fit into a few simple categories: grudging thoughts, fearful thoughts, angry thoughts, wanting thoughts, planning thoughts, memories, and so on.
• You act in certain ways because you have certain thoughts that over your lifetime have become habitual. Habitual patterns of thought and perception will begin to lose their influence over your life once you become aware of them.
• Emotions, aside from the thoughts and pictures in your mind, consist entirely of physical sensations in your body.
• Even the strongest emotion will become manageable if you concentrate on the sensations in your body and not the content of the thought that produced the emotion.
• Thoughts and emotions are not permanent. They pass into and out of your body and mind. They need not leave a trace.
• When you are awake to what is happening right now and open to what is, the extreme highs and extreme lows of your emotional response to life will disappear. You will live life with equanimity.

All good! — though expressed rather too strongly and without qualifiers. Other parts of the "Meditation" are beautifully written, especially some of the suggestions for how to focus, relax, let go, and accept. They're reminiscent of another book of the five recommended in Hope Reese's article: Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn.

_{(cf Softening into Experience (2012-11-12), Equanimity and Magnanimity (2015-02-19), This Is Equanimity (2015-03-15), Stress Storm (2019-12-26), Worry, Stress, Anxiety (2020-03-04), Resilience Training (2022-10-03), ...) - ^z - 2023-10-30}