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Solve Your Problems Like a Stranger

By Dr David R Hamilton | January 28, 2026 | 0
Cartoon image of a young man with dark hair and glassed looking like he's figuring something out. Above his head is a tangle of string with an arrow leading towards a bright lightbulb. He is wearing a blue jacket, white t-shirt and brown trousers.

Science shows there’s a small mental shift you can make that often helps problems feel clearer, lighter, and easier to work with.

It’s called creating psychological distance.

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The Heart-Breath Connection: A Simple Way to Calm Your Nervous System

By Dr David R Hamilton | January 21, 2026 | 0
A woman in her 40s with her eyes closed, breathing, with her hands over her heart. She has wavy, shoulder-length brown hair, and is wearing a red and white horizontally striped t-shirt. She is standing in a well-lit room. An office with a desk and boxes is blurred out in the background, as well as an arched door with a red brick wall.

Heart Rhythm Meditation is a simple science-backed way to calm your nervous system, support your heart, and lift your emotional well-being.

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How to harness the power of the placebo

By Dr David R Hamilton | January 14, 2026 | 0
Row of five tablets in a horizontal row on a bright yellow background. Four of the tablets are pale yellow. The second from the right is bright pink, has a smiley face, and sunshine emanations coming out of it.

The placebo effect was once dismissed as the ‘natural course of the condition’. It meant that if a person’s condition improved when they took a placebo, it was just coincidence. We now understand things much better.

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Why Aromatherapy Works: The science of smell

By Dr David R Hamilton | January 8, 2026 | 6
Woman with light brown hair with her eyes closed taking a sniff of an essential oil. She has the bottle in her left hand and holds the dropper to her nose with her right hand. She is wearing an olive green top. The background is blurred out, but it's a well lit room with what looks like plants in the background.

There’s a well-identified link between smell sensitivity, memory, and cognition. Studies show that smell training impacts the brain and improves memory and cognition.

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