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★ Writing with your left hand

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.

If you open doors with your right hand by default, start opening them with your left. If you usually take the first step on a staircase with your right foot, do it with the left. Keep working at it until leading with your left feels natural and easy.

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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:

Eating your food (especially using a spoon). Blowing your nose. Scrubbing dishes. Brushing your teeth. Dialing phone number and writing SMS on a cell phone.

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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.

Trace your right hand onto a piece of paper. Pushing the pencil against a 3-D contours will help guide the left hand. Graduate to tracing 2-D images. You can think of this as taking down the gutter guards at the bowling alley. Throwing and catching a ball with your left hand is also a fun way to improve your hand-eye coordination.

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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.

If your writing is very messy in the beginning, start by tracing large text out of a book or magazine. It may help to buy children’s paper, which has widely spaced lines for large printing and dotted center lines to control the letter proportions.

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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.

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