Teach Yourself to Be Ambidextrous
Should you not already be ambidextrous, and you wish to improve your body and mind, you can begin to improve yourself in measured increments. If both of your hands are equally skilled, you can be more productive as a result.
This is easy enough to start learning as all that you need to do is to start using your off hand to perform tasks normally assigned to your main hand, which in the case of most of the population is the right hand. One benefit of this is that your main hand would suffer less continuous stress, as the other hand begins to see more usage. Additionally, you become more balanced physically and mentally. As the mind and the body are connected through a nervous system, it stands to reason that new patterns of behavior would be simultaneously accompanied by the creation of new synapse patterns and also the modification of old synapse patterns.
The retooling of your off-hand also forces you to re-learn the skill you have learned with your main hand. Weather this is brushing your teeth, writing a note, painting a wall, or even washing dishes, relearning a skill in a slightly different way often improves the basic skill because it can encourage someone to reflect on that skill because often those skills and tasks are automatic when one is using their main hand.
I was thinking about this while having a coffee and wrote this article entry out by hand, the majority of which was composed with my left hand, just to see if I could do it.
Although my handwriting can be very neat and even attractive if I am focusing on the act, even with my main hand, it is often messy because it tends to be inconsistent.
Granted, I am just focusing on getting the ideas down onto paper, rather than trying to impress anyone with my beautiful script. So the result is not overly attractive, but effective and efficient because I can read my own handwriting at a later time. When I tried with my left hand, the result was interesting; I had never written more than a sentence with my left hand prior to this page, so it was not attractive either.
One thing I did notice is that because I was forced to take extra time with the task, the results were oddly a lot more consistent than with what would have occurred with my right hand writing. I was forced to think consciously about the formation of each letter rather than drilling a word out as fast as possible so my thoughts slowed down to the point where I almost lost patience with the idea; nevertheless, the thoughts did occur and perhaps were altered in a beneficial way by given them time to form properly the first time.
