Dr Ainslie Meares (1910-1986)

Dr Ainslie Meares was an eminent Australian psychiatrist and internationally recognised medical hypnotist. He introduced the formal practice we now call Stillness Meditation to the world. In doing so he also introduced mind-body medicine to the west in the 1960s.  Stillness Meditation is a form of homeostasis - the mind's ability to self heal which also influences the body. Because it is a natural function, when correctly taught and correctly practiced it can be learnt by practically any one.     

You already have the ability, it is a matter of reawakening or re-learning that which lies under utilised or dormant within you. 

Further information 

www.mearesbook.com.au was started in 2017 to provide an outline of Dr Meares' biography and inform readers about Owen's first book (Ainslie Meares on Meditation)  which importantly includes Dr Meares instructions on how to meditate which were read by many people and translated into a dozen languages. That book also contains 30+ examples of Dr Meares' meditation support poetry and more. 

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Owen learnt from Dr Meares for a year in 1984 and has practiced Stillness Meditation daily ever since.

The story of how Owen evolved from being a student of Dr Meares into a meditation teacher and therapist decades later is here.