Comments on: Benefits of Using Your Opposite Hand – Grow Brain Cells While Brushing Your Teeth

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 23 May 2013 17:09:08 +0000

I pratice marital arts, and when ever we do stuff that requires us to use are non-dominant side I am always amazed on how badly I do and was wondering what I could do to improve in this area when I came accross your post, it just make sense that one would need to just to more things with their non-dominant side in order to get better, thanks for the post.

By: Bobby @ Ban Excuses

Bobby @ Ban Excuses — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:58:32 +0000

I’ve wanted to start using my non-dominant hand for more things, but never gotten around to doing it. Thanks for the tips, will definitely have to give this a shot!

By: CowboyTech

CowboyTech — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 13:38:49 +0000

I know this works, and I do it at times. However, so you’ll know – you don’t need to purchase a left-handed mouse. Move you regular mouse to the other side of the keyboard, then (depending on your operating system – assuming Windows of some flavor) go to Control Panel and find Mouse. Open the Mouse panel and find the tab at the top that enables you to change mouse settings. Click on “switch buttons” (or whatever it says) and the left mouse button will become the “right click” and the right mouse button will become the regular click. Voila! You now have a left-handed mouse. I’ve worked on computers for 45 years, so if you have a problem, give me a call or send me at email. Cowboytechcomputers dot com.

By: Sarah Park

Sarah Park — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 19:48:36 +0000

This is one trivia I haven’t heard of. I must try doing this myself and see some results personally.

By: Nick @ CreditRanker

Nick @ CreditRanker — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 23:46:44 +0000

This reminds me of something we did in high school art class. We still used our dominant hand, but the project was to look at our other hand and draw it…..without ever looking at the paper…or even lifting the pencil off the paper. The purpose was to concentrate on the detail of your hand. Then we did it again but were allowed to look at the paper, but as little as possible. That practice helped me draw one of my best pictures ever with incredible detail. I like the idea for using the non-dominant hand for as many things as possible too. I might have to start doing that.

By: Ashley @VaultWorthy

Ashley @VaultWorthy — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 21:18:57 +0000

Wow! This is really interesting. Not sure if this has anything to do with it but the most creative people I’ve met are tend to be left-handed rather than right-handed. I wonder how using the opposite hand for them would influence their creativity? Thanks for sharing!

By: Rob @FinancialSprout

Rob @FinancialSprout — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 04:58:16 +0000

Halfway through this I started to use my mouse with my left hand lol. I might have to do this, but I think I really use my brain with a lot of things I do. I play guitar, and I have to shred with my non-dominant hand. That’s a lot of coordination I’ve built up, and quite a bit of full brain usage. I must be getting super smart now!

By: Martina

Martina — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 16:22:46 +0000

I love to play racquetball. When I injured my left shoulder last year in a bike accident (I’m left-handed), rather than give up racquetball, I began to play with my right hand. I’m an excellent player when using my dominant left hand- not so much with the right, but it allowed me to continue the exercise activity I love, and continue to gain the health benefit of playing regularly. Toughest part was to get past the ego aspect of looking like a clumsy beginner

By: misshl

misshl — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 00:13:00 +0000

I’m naturally right handed. I started writing with my left hand a year ago as I was bored and reading up on left-right brain hemispheres and I came upon the term ambidextrous. So I gave it a shot, once a week I would write for 5-10 minutes the alphabet and numbers in a printing notebook. I felt like I was back in elementary school again. At first my printing was shaky, but now a year later, everyone says it looks neat and even better than their printing with their right hands
I started turning switches off and on with left hand and turning door knobs, even eating soup with a spoon in my left hand. At first, it was just a joke and I would consciously have to tell myself to use my left hand.
But a year later, my left hand dominates! I write with my left hand all the time. I use my right hand at work when I have to write fast, but I also work as a writer. So when I’m writing down my thoughts or ideas in my journal, I find writing with my left hand makes me write slower, so I give my thoughts a lot more time to write down.
I also feel like I’m more balanced. Before when I was strictly using my right hand, I would do those left/right brain quizzes and my results stated that I was more right brained.
Now that I use my left hand more than my right hand, I have done the same quizzes again and my left/right brain ratio is 48% (left brain) – 52% (right brain) – more balanced. I also feel it with my decision making and I don’t easily cry any more when I get emotional . Before becoming ambidextrous, I was extremely emotional and would cry at movies or if I heard a sad song on the radio (like a typical women).
But now when I get teary, I can tell myself to hold back the tears and tell myself it’s not worth to cry over something so small.
I think it has something to do with using my left hand more with handling things. So it sounds a bit crazy that using your left hand can make you become more level-headed, but it worked for me.

I advise anyone who wants to pick up a new hobby and also better themselves to become ambidextrous, it starts with 10 minutes a week with writing with your left hand and just picking up objects with your non dominant hand. After a year of doing it, you’ll feel the difference. I know I do, and I will continue to be a ‘righty to who turned lefty!

By: bonni

bonni — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:10:39 +0000

Having had an operation on my right shoulder I’m having to do most things with my left(non-dominant) hand. It is difficult especially personal things. Brushing my hair is difficult as well as cleaning my teeth but things get easier the more you practice. As for making me more creative… well I can’t wait to be able to use both hands to do some experimental textile art things.