I forgot about doing this exercise.
Performing tasks with your non-dominant hand is a great way to develop new neural pathways.
Understand that in order to control your non-dominant hand, your brain will literally have to form new neural connections. Developing these motor skills will probably give you a whole new appreciation of what babies’ lives are like.
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Resist the urge to lead with your right side. You may be surprised to discover how deeply ingrained this habit is — both physically and mentally. Breaking it will help your brain cope with attempting more involved tasks down the road.
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Do simple, everyday tasks with your left hand.
Do simple, everyday tasks with your left hand.
Do simple, everyday tasks with your left hand. Good activities to start with include:
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Practice more precise movements. Now that your left hand is comfortable with sloppier movements like scrubbing and brushing, begin refining your hand-eye coordination. Tracing is a great place to start: having a defined edge to work with will help force your eye, which is visually tracing the outline, and your left hand, which is physically tracing it, to work in sync.
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Draw basic shapes. Stick people, square houses with rectangular chimneys, round-headed cats with triangular ears… The goal here is to become more dexterous, not to produce a Rembrandt. Try coloring them in, too, to make you feel more comfortable with your left hand.
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Write.
Write.
Write. Begin printing the alphabet in both capital and lowercase letters, then move on to sentences. When printing becomes comfortable, you can start practicing your cursive.
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Consider throwing balls to a target place to strengthen up your muscles.
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Consider listening to music while writing to strengthen up your right brain.
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Some people might get help with this by playing racket games to make balance and might focus on the left hand more, so that they have trained their left hand for more challenges there by making it stronger for more writing challenges.