How To Write With Your Left Hand
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.
How to write with your left hand. For the last three years i have taught all ages from elementary and middle school students to college students and adults in prison how to also begin writing with both hands. In this case practice definitely makes perfect. And i can now use my left hand just as well as my right. To write with your left hand if you re right handed practice printing the alphabet in upper and lower case letters with your left hand. But a year later my left hand dominates.
According to brain research any kind of cross lateral physical action increases your mental abilities. Using your left hand let your mind take control. Put your watch on your right wrist. When you feel comfortable doing this try writing some of the most common words in your language which you can find on wikipedia or writing your name. The trick is you just have to do it even if it looks bad at first.
It used to be taught that right handed people are tapped into the left logical side of their brain and left handed people are tapped into. It will feel very awkward at first but its doable just hold it anyway. Over the past 6 years i have spent thousands of hours training my non dominant hand in this case my left hand to write and draw. Write as much as you can about your topic in the allotted amount of time. Most have the initial impression of.
Write a note to yourself on the mirror with a greaseboard marker so you won t forget. Set aside about 20 minutes or a half hour to writing with your left hand each day whether you re tracing or actually writing. Then when you take a shower turn on the water reach for use the soap reach for use the towel dry off and brush your hair with your left hand. Do this consistently and you ll be completely relaxed and comfortable writing with your left hand in no time. If a left handed child is only permitted to write with the left hand but not taught how to write the child may develop an uncomfortable inefficient and messy form of writing that will stay with them into adulthood if you are right handed give writing with your left hand a go.
Now for homework i would not do it but on your personal notes and just other stuff that you would write use your land hand instead.