Here’s how and why meditation works. | David R Hamilton PhD
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Here’s how and why meditation works. | David R Hamilton PhD
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Get this short course by Dr David R Hamilton, bestselling author of 11 books, where you'll learn how to deflect / block other people's negative emotion. Pay what you want for the course. | David R Hamilton PhD
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How belief changes biology.😊 | David R Hamilton PhD
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How belief changes biology.😊 | David R Hamilton PhD
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Kindness is good for your skin! Here's a short video of me explaining why. :-) | David R Hamilton PhD
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Kindness is good for your skin! Here's a short video of me explaining why. :-) | David R Hamilton PhD
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Emotions are contagious. In fact, they’re even easier to catch than the cold.😊 | David R Hamilton PhD
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Emotions are contagious. In fact, they’re even easier to catch than the cold.😊 | David R Hamilton PhD
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I’m on my way to give a talk on the mind-body connection. I’m in Ireland, speaking in Waterford tonight, Cork tomorrow, and Belfast on Wednesday. . | David R Hamilton PhD
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I’m on my way to give a talk on the mind-body connection. I’m in Ireland, speaking in Waterford tonight, Cork tomorrow, and Belfast on Wednesday. . | David R Hamilton PhD
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There’s a rightness to kindness. Deep down, being kind taps into something human. It’s a recognition that helping someone is the right thing to do, it’s what holds us all together. 😊 . #bekind #therightthingtodo #kindness | David R Hamilton PhD
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If you ever talk to deceased loved ones in your mind, I hope this makes you smile today.🙏✨😊 | David R Hamilton PhD
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Couple of minutes to air. I'll be on at around 11.15am. 😀 | David R Hamilton PhD
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It sometimes doesn’t take much to make a person’s day. . #bekind #kindnessmatters #kindnessquotes | David R Hamilton PhD
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Your brain doesn’t always distinguish real from imaginary. This study, and application of the knowledge, is the sort of I’m going to be sending in a new email that I’ll be sending out each Wednesday. If you want to receive it, you can register using the link in my LinkTree or on this link: https://drdavidhamilton.com/better-you-weekly/ Source: A. Pascual-Leone et al., (1995) “Modulation of muscle responses evoked by transcranial magnetic stimulation during the acquisition of new fine motor skill
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Herbert Benson and his team at Harvard once invited volunteers to meditate for a short time each day for 8 weeks. Blood samples before and after the 8 weeks revealed that meditation had impacted over 1,500 genes in novice meditators and over 2,200 genes in experienced meditators. One of the main conclusions was that meditation, which initiates the ‘relaxation response’ (the body’s physiological response to meditation, yoga, tai chi, and other similar movement and breathing practices), slows the
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It’s really important that we practice some self kindness when we feel we need it.One of the ways to practice it is to find things that support your mental health and to do them on purpose. It’s the ‘on purpose’ bit that makes it self kindness.You’re choosing something on purpose that matters to you. You’re saying, “I matter.”😊 #selfkindness #selfcare #selfesteem #selflove #bekind #bekindtoyourself | David R Hamilton PhD
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This is how different meditation styles accomplish different things. Mindfulness, kindfulness, and mantra-based styles of meditation impact the brain in different ways and acccomplish different things. Mindfulness impacts the brain in a way that can improve concentration and memory, while Kindfulness practices can help boost happiness and reduce stress and anxiety, whereas mantra-based practices can reduce mental chatter and help quieten the mind.🧘‍♂️ . . . #meditation #mindfulness #kindfulness
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New research has shown that visualisation can be used to reduce pain, and incredibly, the reduction in pain was as good as from the treatment itself. The treatment was ultrasound, TENS, hot pack application, and stretching exercises. Each session (real or imagined) lasted 45 minutes and took place 5 times a week for 2 weeks. Osteoarthritis patients were randomised into 2 groups to receive either treatment or visualisation. There was large reductions in pain in both groups, and incredibly, the ma
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Just thought I’d post about the calming effect of Nature while I take a wee walk with Daisy. Nature causes a calming effect in the human nervous system. It’s an ancient legacy effect, from the eons our ancient ancestors spent in nature in a state of relative calm compared with the fast pace of modern life. When we experience nature in any form, we tap into this ancient legacy effect and the body and mind tends towards a state of calm. . #nature #natureheals #naturecalms | David R Hamilton PhD
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Here’s how visualisation can improve strength and physical movement, with a couple of science studies thrown in.🎾 . #visualization #visualisation #mindbody #howyourmindcanhealyourbody #drdavidhamilton #thepowerofthemind | David R Hamilton PhD
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When you realise you haven’t packed enough clothes and you have a talk to do.😂 | David R Hamilton PhD
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Here’s a wee short video about how and why kindness is good for mental health, plus a simple daily kindness practice that you can do without even getting off the chair. 😊 | David R Hamilton PhD
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Wherever you are in the world, whatever is going on in your life, I’m cheering you on!☀️💫. . #metta #lovingkindness #kindnessmatters #kindness | David R Hamilton PhD
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The healing power of nature: The human nervous system generally responds differently to different environments. I wrote about how nature is restorative in chapter 4 of my new book (Why Woo Woo Works); hospital patients tend to recover faster if their window offers them a view of nature vs a car park or brick wall. Nature sounds (eg birdsong) also gives us higher tolerances for pain. Apologies for the wind at some parts of the video. It’s a wee bit blustery in Scotland today.🌱🌬🌞😊 | David R Ha
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I did a wee bit of mindset coaching for some kids at my local tennis club🎾, but I thought I’d mention, here, what I talked about - because the two skills I taught them are transferable skills - skills we can apply in many different areas of life. First, I covered the relationship between how you hold and move your body and how you feel. 🦸‍♀️ I asked them to walk around the clubhouse in different postures so they could see for themselves how it made them feel. It’s a useful insight because bein
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Someone, somewhere in the world right now, is wishing loving kindness to all living beings as part of the Metta practice. And that means you are being wished lovingkindness simply because you exist. 💛 . . #lovingkindness #lovingkindnessmeditation #metta #sharonsalzberg | David R Hamilton PhD
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You are made of stardust. Every atom in your body was born in a star and you are entangled with the whole universe. | David R Hamilton PhD
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As it’s Mental Health Awareness Week, I thought it might be helpful if I shared some of my own struggles with my mental health. I hope my experience, and what I learned, is helpful to someone.🙏💛 . #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthawarenessweek #depression #reachout #checkin | David R Hamilton PhD
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Our human species has spent 99.99% of our time through evolution in natural environments, compared with just 0.01% in modern built-up surroundings, of concrete buildings with glass windows, and the hum or aircon units and phones. A consequence is that the human nervous system tends towards a state of calm all by itself when we are in natural settings. . #nature #natureheals #thepowerofnature | David R Hamilton PhD
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Moral Treatment. This is the 3rd in my wee series of kindness videos. Moral treatment is the long-forgotten original treatment for mental illness. It began in the late 18th century and was the main treatment for over 100 years. It was gradually forgotten amid the advent of modern medicine. It teaches us that in reaching out to help others, our own mental health benefits. 🙏🤓😊 | David R Hamilton PhD
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I read a recent article on how surrounding cities and towns with green space (woodland, parks, etc) can cool the centres of cities and towns.🌳 It’s because our concrete structures radiate heat and so warm the air in cities. The hot air naturally rises, leaving lower pressure at human-level height. This lower pressure results in cooler air from the surrounding nature spaces being drawn in, creating a cooling effect in the cities. In real terms, it equates to around 0.5 degrees, but that is signi
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