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Channel 4, Sunday Brunch, August 13th 2017

Some #TuesdayThoughts from @DrDRHamilton who tells us exactly how being kind to other people can literally improve your health! pic.twitter.com/4ofZOjE5KB

— Sunday Brunch (@SundayBrunchC4) August 15, 2017

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SchoolofKindSchool of Kindness@SchoolofKind·
15 Sep

Is your school joining in? World Kindness Day will take place on Nov 13 and we have a range of activities on offer. Request your free World Kindness Day pack, filled with themed lessons, activities, and fundraising ideas. We’re also hosting LIVE workshops. https://schoolofkindness.org/world-kindness-day

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carbonchoicesukNeil Kitching@carbonchoicesuk·
8 Sep

1 lucky person can win a free (signed) copy of Carbon Choices - the common sense solutions to our climate and #nature crises (publish in Oct). All you need to do is like and retweet this by 21/9.
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dunblane_scDunblane Sports Club@dunblane_sc·
6 Sep

Club Champs... Middle Sunday under the lights, Men’s Singles 2nd round #tennis

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HayHouseUKHay House@HayHouseUK·
4 Sep

Overcome the fear that has been holding you back, allowing you to create the life you have always dreamed of - read #ThisGirlIsOnFire by @andrea_mclean. Find out more here: https://www.thisgirlisonfire.com/

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4 Sep

Here’s a simple way to increase your energy. It uses the link between your brain and body. Eons of evolution has ensured that your feelings and their physical expression are in synch, so you can use your body to alter how you feel. https://youtu.be/_jXbxyUtAGk

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Today is the start of #bekind21 The invitation is Today is the start of #bekind21 The invitation is to do at least one act of kindness per day through the first 21 days of September. It’s being led by @btwfoundation , which was created by @ladygaga and her mum @momgerm Last year’s #bekind21 invitation saw several million acts of kindness done around the world. That totally warms me!😊💛💫 If you want to, you can join the movement of kindness + sign up to #BeKind21: (link in bio of @btwfoundation ) I’ve done so already. 🌈🌟💛
Today is the anniversary of the passing of both Lo Today is the anniversary of the passing of both Louise Hay and Wayne Dyer. I am deeply grateful to both of them. Louise, for publishing me and kindly writing the foreword to my first book. I remember my first big US talk in New York. I felt really nervous as I was relatively unknown to the audience. Louise took my hand, gently squeezed it, and said, “You are here today because you have something really important to share.” It really settled me. At a party after another conference, Louise kept imitating my Scottish accent each time she passed me. It was really funny and I found myself so very fond of her. Wayne was always a personal hero to me. When I first left the pharmaceutical industry, I would listen to tapes of him speaking every time I got in my car. His voice was so nice to listen to, and I loved that he spoke so much about love, kindness, compassion, faith. I always felt so warm inside listening to him and his words helped form the direction my life took. At a conference event where I was to speak right after him, he joked to me that he was my warm up act and that I should start my talk by thanking him for that. It was the first time I’d ever spoken to him as I’d always been shy around him, so it helped me witness a genuine and lovely side of him in real life. I did indeed begin the talk with that line, but I also followed up by explaining that Wayne told me to say that.😂 . . . #hayhouse #hayhouseuk #louisehay #waynedyer #drwaynedyer
I had an early morning tennis lesson with @markwal I had an early morning tennis lesson with @markwalkertennis this morning. I love tennis, both for the fun of the game but also the exercise. Mark had me running all over the court this morning. According to my watch, I burned around 800 calories in 1 hour. One extra thing I love about tennis, but this applies to all exercise, is that it helps to slow the rate of biological ageing. One way it works is that exercise (especially vigorous), stimulates production of enzymes known as sirtuins. You can think of them as sweeping brushes that clean the environment around DNA, allowing genes to be read more easily. According to David Sinclair, Harvard professor of genetics, and his Information Theory of Ageing, outlined in his excellent book, Lifespan, you can think of ageing like damage to a DVD. Initially the picture is clear, but over time, the DVD picks up some micro scratches that make it more difficult for the machine to read the data. As a consequence, there’s a loss in picture quality. The data is still there on the DVD. The small scratches just make it difficult to get to the data. And so something akin happens in our cells. Ageing is the accumulation of ‘scratches’ at a rate faster than the body can clean them. If we can clean and polish faster, we slow ageing. Sirtuins act like little cleaning brushes that polish the DVD as the scratches appear, that is, they help clean the environment around DNA, making it easier for our cells to read the genes. Exercise sets the sirtuins to work, and thus with regular exercise, we polish more scratches, so to speak, and keep our genetic environment cleaner and healthier and, as a result, we slow the rate of biological ageing. For me, that’s one extra reason to get up early and play some tennis.🎾💫😀 . . . #healthylifestyle #tennis #ageing #aging #dowhatyoulove
Good news if you fancy picking up a copy of my boo Good news if you fancy picking up a copy of my book (e-version) for £1.50 / $1.99. Perhaps in response to interest from last week’s sale, @hayhouseuk and @hayhouseinc have arranged with Amazon and other online retailers for my book to be available at this price in all countries until 29th August. 🙏😊💛 I’m so pleased as it gives more people access to the content and hopefully be able to benefit from it.😀
My prayer for you today.💛 . . . #bekind #kindne My prayer for you today.💛 . . . #bekind #kindness #love #joy #affection
I can honestly say that when I was at school, the I can honestly say that when I was at school, the idea of ever writing anything was the furthest thought from my mind, especially after failing my English exam on my first attempt. My strengths had always been in science and maths. I was bottom of my English class and just couldn’t seem to understand the art of writing or even analysis of what others write. It’s funny how things work out, because now I am a writer. Mind you, I write (mostly) in science (of kindness, mind-body connection and self esteem), but do wander into spirituality too, which I suppose I fuse with science too. I am grateful to @hayhouseuk for not only publishing me, but for taking a chance on me as a one-time self-published, rookie author back in 2005, who didn’t even have a website or had even heard of social media or YouTube. I have always been a slow starter. Lol. Now, I have 9 books with Hay House and they are an amazing publisher, staffed by kind, compassionate people who are trying to make a difference in the world. The purpose of the wee photo of my books is to let you know that Hay House UK are currently doing 50% off all physical products this week (books - mine, included), card decks (I have several decks - Louise Hay’s ‘Heart Thoughts’ sits on my desk and I take one every day), calendars and journals. So you can get any of my books for half price, or any others published by Hay House, including @drrobert_holden @kylegrayuk @drjoedispenza @gregg.braden @thesophiebashford @thephilparker @dionthewomanologist @louise_hay_affirmations @drwaynedyer and many, many others.😊 For info, my list (in publication order) is: -It’s the Thought that Counts -Destiny vs Free Will -Why Kindness is Good for You -The Contagious Power of Thinking -Choice Point -Is Your Life Mapped Out? -I Heart Me -How Your Mind Can Heal Your Body -The Five Side Effects of Kindness . . . #hayhouseuk #hayhouseinc #books
I am so excited to be speaking at the Come Alive S I am so excited to be speaking at the Come Alive Summit this weekend. The organisers designed it as an event to help people bounce back from lockdown, recharge themselves and find their spark. You can get your ticket at https://comealivesummit.co.uk/ Please use code ‘DAVID10’ to gain 10% discount! And if you’d like to attend but can’t make the dates, there’s ‘PLUS’ tickets available that lets you watch the video replays! Here’s who will be speaking: @plantpowerdoctor @amber_riya @richardnewmanspeaks @drpunamkrishan @leia_vita @drlaurenmacdonald @fitnessexplorer @dereksarno @andrew7sealy @thehappypear @deliciouslyella @davidrhamiltonphd @anyagarnisla @veganolympian @comealivesummit #comealivesummit #feelgood #nutrition #fitness #cookingdemo #yoga #meditation #retreat #wellbeing #plantbased #vegan #inspiration #motivation #mindset #kindness #workout #lockdown #health #food #connection
I’m very proud of this book. My prompt to work o I’m very proud of this book. My prompt to work on self love was a kind of anxiety attack at the side of the stage when I was about to speak at a conference right after the late Dr Wayne Dyer. I was about to be announced. I suddenly felt small and empty. My mind flashed back to school when I was about 6. Teacher had asked us to bring 5p for a school trip. I was the only kid who didn’t. I didn’t forget. I just didn’t ask mum and dad because I knew they were struggling. I’d heard mum crying a few nights earlier while talking to dad because she didn’t know how she could afford things. The teacher wasn’t pleased and made me stand in the corner while the other kids were given a yellow badge. I wasn’t to go on the trip. I felt like crying; to be singled out, but more because I wasn’t getting the badge. When you’re a kid, a badge feels special. To my 6-year old brain that day, all the other kids were special except for me. That sentiment followed me through teenage and adult years. I was bullied at school, in part for showing off, but the bullies didn’t realise I showed off because I thought I needed to give people reasons to like me, or they wouldn’t. As an adult, I hid it well, but it had been bubbling to the surface more and more. I felt small and empty at the side of the stage because I felt I had nothing of any value to say. I felt like an outsider, standing in the corner with no right to be there. I sat with Danny and @anitamoorjani that night. Hearing Anita describe her NDE and how she learned the importance of self love, was my prompt. That was the day I started working on self love. I’m still a work in progress, but then so are we all. I’m proud of my book, published by @hayhouseuk It reached No.1 on the UK audiobooks chart last year (for about an hour 😂). Some of my biggest lessons have been learning that it’s OK to not be OK, or to not know what to do, to mess up, to wing it, to feel vulnerable, to feel shame. We’re all children, learning, striving, loving, losing, trying to not hurt others, trying our best given our experience and understanding. So cut yourself some slack. You deserve it. And cut others some too.💛 #selflove #iheartme #selfesteem
The free Lucid Dreaming online summit starts this The free Lucid Dreaming online summit starts this week. It’s hosted by lucid dreaming expert and international best selling author @charlie_morley_lucid_dreaming It contains interviews with loads of authors and experts in lucid dreaming and in fields that relate to lucid dreaming in some ways. Lucid dreaming is where you basically become awake during a dream in a way that you can be conscious and in control of the dream. One of the things I sometimes do (apart from flying lol), is to commune with my Higher Self and ask deep questions. In one of my lucid dreams, the Hulk (yes, seriously) had appeared and was menacing. I became lucid at that moment and took out my pen, directed it at him and clicked it. A wee particle of energy zipped out and hit him in the third eye. I then walked away, safe. When I asked Charlie about the meaning of the dream, he explained that I needed to understand that, ‘the pen is mightier than the sword’. In my summit interview, Charlie and I discuss the mind body connection and visualisation as it relates to lucid dreaming. The link to register is in my bio. It’s free, but you may see a price on the screen, but that’s only for people who wish to buy all the summit content at the end. The summit is entirely free while it runs (29th July - 1st August), so you can dip into interviews that most interest you, as well as get tips on how to lucid dream. Link in bio. . . . #luciddreams #luciddreaming #lucid
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“David Hamilton is an expert on how our thoughts and minds can physically change our bodies.” Daily Express

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Kindred Spirit Magazine, “Best MBS Writer Award 2016”

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