The Little Book of Kindness: Connect with others, be happier, transform your life (The Gaia Little Books)

A fully illustrated guide to the science and benefits of kindness from leading kindness expert, Dr David R Hamilton


Scientific evidence has proven that kindness changes the brain, impacts the heart and immune system, is an antidote to depression, improves relationships and even slows the ageing process. Yet, more than this, kindness can power real and lasting change in the world.




This little guide shows how the practice of kindness can increase our happiness, improve our health, help us to forge stronger connections with others and positively affect the world we live in.




In The Little Book of Kindness, kindness expert Dr David R Hamilton reveals the science of kindness and teaches us how, by using easy-to-follow tools, strategies and exercises, we can harness its power to improve all aspects of our lives and the lives of the people around us.

Dr David Hamilton has a PhD in organic chemistry and spent four years working in the pharmaceutical industry, developing drugs for cardiovascular disease and cancer. Inspired by the placebo effect, he left the industry to write books and educate people in how they can harness their mind and emotions to improve their health. He is the author of nine books, including How Your Mind Can Heal Your Body and The Five Side Effects of Kindness. David is the 'Kindness Tsar' for Psychologies magazine and writes for Soul & Spirit Magazine and the Huffington Post. He has appeared on Channel 4's Sunday Brunch in the UK and CBS Sunday Morning in the USA. An advocate for kindness, David is working passionately to help inspire a kinder world.