Hello and welcome to the Karma You podcast. This is your host, Chloe Brotheridge. I'm a coach, a

hypnototherapist, and I'm the author of The Anxiety Solution and Brave New Girl. And this podcast is all

about helping you to become your calmest, happiest and most confident self. Thanks so much for

listening today. I am super excited

for today's guest talking to David Hamilton, PhD, who is someone that I have admired for ages. I

have been to his workshops, read his books. He is definitely someone that I massively look up to

and find really inspiring. He has a PhD in organic chemistry

and he spent four years in the pharmaceutical industry developing drugs for cardiovascular disease and

cancer. And he got really inspired by the placebo effect. And so he left the industry to start writing books about the placebo effect and how they can

harness their mind and emotions to improve their health.

Now, he comes at it from such a scientific point of view.

Because I think when we often hear about placebo, we think that isn't very scientific,

but actually it really is and it's so

interesting how powerful our mind is. He's now the author of 10 books, including the little

book of kindness, how your mind can heal your body, and I Heart Me and the Amazon bestseller,

The Five Side Effects of Kindness. So we get into how the mind can heal the body. And this is so

interesting to me as a hypnotherapist. I think you're really going to enjoy hearing about this.

We talk about the power of beliefs. Our beliefs are so important and powerful. They really do

shape our thoughts and feelings. And we get into that.

We talk about why kindness is so powerful.

And just as a hint, it has really powerful effects.

Aside from just making us feel good,

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