Content

• Steps
• Method 1 of 2: Practice Your Writing Skills
• Method 2 of 2: Making Your Left Arm Stronger
• Tips
• Warnings

Any of us can become ambidextrous, that is, a person who equally owns the left and right hands. Einstein, Michelangelo, Tesla, da Vinci, Fleming and Franklin were ambidextrous. Ambidexterity has many benefits. For example, in billiards: in some positions it is more convenient to move the balls with the right hand, and in some with the left. The same can be said about tennis: hitting the ball with the left hand is more likely to take it out of the field than with the right; besides, the leading (right) hand does not always come out to hit the ball faster. Of course, in order to wake up the other hand (in the case of this article, the right one), you will need a lot of time and patience, but this goal is still quite achievable! And in this article we will tell you what needs to be done.

All the same techniques can be applied if you are left-handed. An additional advantage is that this way you can avoid many of the inconveniences of our world, where, by and large, many things are designed specifically for right-handers.

Steps

Method 1 of 2: Practice Your Writing Skills

1. 1 Write something with your left hand every day. You can't want to today, and tomorrow you wake up ambidextrous - you have to work, and for a rather long time - several months or even years. So, if you really want to learn how to use your left hand 100%, you will have to train daily.
   • Set aside time in your schedule to write with your left hand. Enough 15 minutes a day.
   • The main thing is not to force yourself through force - disappointment and fatigue have ruined many great undertakings.
   • Practice regularly and you will get your way.
   • Practice writing letters in the air. Start with the right, then continue with the left. Then practice writing on paper. Learning to write with the non-dominant hand requires constant practice.
2. 2 Hold your hand correctly. When trying to train yourself to write with your left hand, it is important to hold the pen comfortably in it.
   • Many of us hold the handle too tightly, squeezing it with an almost death grip, which makes the hand quickly get tired. A tired hand, in turn, deteriorates the quality of the letter.
   • To keep your hand from getting tired, hold the handle with your left hand as you would with your right, but mirroring everything in a mirror. And do not deny yourself the rest breaks!
   • Writing on good paper with a good pen will be much more convenient and easier.
   • Tilt the paper 30–45 degrees to the right for a more comfortable angle.
3. 3 Practice spelling the symbols of the alphabet. Use your left pen to write down the entire alphabet of your language, both lowercase and uppercase. Take your time, focus on making the letters even remotely resemble themselves. For now, quality is important to you, not speed.
   • For the sake of comparison, do the same, but with your right hand. Accordingly, continue to work with this role model.
   • Keep your drafts in a folder somewhere. So, it will be more convenient and easier for you to track progress and, accordingly, it will be easier to deal with the lack of motivation.
4. 4 Practice writing sentences. Having worked out the alphabet, it's time to move on to the text, more precisely, to the sentences.
   • Start with something simple, like, "I am writing this sentence with my left hand." Remember, there is no need to rush, you must try to do everything efficiently.
   • Then try to write one of those sentences that contain all the letters of the Russian language.
   • And then another one is the same.
5. 5 Work with prescriptions. You remember them, you yourself learned to write from them, even if for a long time and with your right hand. Nevertheless, neither the situation in general, nor the rules for writing letters have yet had time to change. With the help of cursives, you will hone your left hand lettering skills.
   • Strictly speaking, you are not just learning to write with your right hand, you are re-learning to write and accustom your brain to it. Namely, for such cases, the prescriptions were created.
   • Remember your slant-stitch lined notebooks? They'll come in handy again to make it easier to make sure the letters have similar proportions.
6. 6 Try writing backwards. In Russian, as in many other languages ​​of the world, the text goes from left to right, "from thumb to little finger."
   • For right-handers, this is not strange. Besides, they still do not accidentally smear ink when writing.
   • For left-handers, in turn, this state of affairs looks less natural. Lefties really find it easier to write from right to left.
   • For example, da Vinci was left-handed and wrote that way - from right to left, mirroring the letters when writing. This made it possible to create a kind of cipher, which could only be read by reflecting the text in the mirror.
   • Practice writing from right to left with your left hand, and you will be amazed at how quickly and easily it will get letters. However, to really write backwards, you also need to write the words themselves!
7. 7 Draw. This, of course, is not quite right, but nevertheless, the ability to draw with your left hand will come in handy - you will learn to control your hand more accurately, and also make it stronger.
   • Start with something simple — say basic geometric shapes like squares, circles, and triangles. Then move on to more complex shapes - trees, chairs, and so on. When this becomes easy for you, start drawing people and animals.
   • Draw from top to bottom with your left hand. This is a great exercise that will help you train your brain and train it to use your left hand as well as your right.
   • Many great artists were ambidextrous and often, when one hand got tired, they just took a brush with the other and continued to paint. Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, a renowned artist, was renowned for his ability to draw with both hands at the same time.
8. 8 Be patient. As mentioned earlier, learning to write with your left hand takes a lot of time and effort. So please be patient and don't give up!
   • After all, it took you years to learn how to write with your right hand! Yes, you were a child, but that doesn't make much of a difference. Moreover, it means that you will wake up the left one even faster! Nevertheless, even with this in mind, you should not expect quick results.
   • Don't worry about writing speed at first. You must learn to control your hand, write letters accurately, and not write quickly. Speed ​​is the next step.
   • Motivate yourself that writing with your left hand is cool and spectacular for a right-handed person. Well, something, but motivation will come in handy ...

Method 2 of 2: Making Your Left Arm Stronger

1. 1 Do everything with your left hand. In general, everything. Skills acquired over the years with the right hand will be passed on with the left - so it won't be that hard at first. Do not only do one thing with your left hand, but literally do everything in order to master the left hand faster. Be patient. Some people find it harder to become ambidextrous with age. In their opinion, the more developed the right hand is, the more patience is needed to master the left. In fact, the older the person, the easier it is to master the non-dominant hand. Do everything with your left hand - this is the easiest way to accustom it to various loads. If you do something with your right, now start doing it with your left.
   • Brush your teeth with your left hand. Comb with your left. Stir the sugar in the cup with the left. Butter on bread - left. Open the door - left. All left!
   • Throw darts - left. Keep the cue - left. Bowling is also left.
   • Yes, at first it will be difficult, you will accidentally break down and start doing everything right. In this case, there is one sure way - tie the fingers of your right hand. Everything, the hand is useless, you have to do everything with the left!
2. 2 Lift weights with your left hand. This will help you straighten out the difference between your dominant and non-dominant hand.
   • Dumbbells, wrist bands - all this will serve you faithfully.
   • Start with small weights, gradually increasing the load.
3. 3 Learn to juggle. Juggling three to four balls is perhaps one of the best ways to strengthen your left hand and improve coordination. Plus, it's spectacular in itself!
4. 4 Practice with the ball. So, one of the great exercises for the non-dominant hand is working with a ball bouncing off a surface. Take two tennis rackets and two balls, then start bouncing them off the floor with both hands at the same time.
   • Have you gotten used to it? Take smaller rackets. Have you gotten used to it again? Hmm ... take the hammers!
   • This exercise will benefit not only the left hand, but also the brain.
5. 5 Learn to play a musical instrument. Many musicians whose instrument requires two hands are somewhat ambidextrous.
   • A piano or flute, for example, requires just two hands.
6. 6 Go swimming. Another activity for two hands at once, allowing you to develop overall coordination of movements and, as a result, the brain.
   • Sign up for the pool, swim a couple of lanes, and you will not only begin to develop your left hand, but in general you will do something useful for the body. Cardio hasn't bothered anyone yet!
7. 7 Do the dishes with your left hand. Regularly washing dishes with your left hand is a simple and reliable way to develop your dexterity. This is both exciting and useful for the future, and not only for washing dishes.
8. 8 Start doing tasks that require more precision with your left hand. Write in a mirror image, play billiards or darts, peel shrimp with your non-dominant hand, which you have already trained on simpler tasks. It will also develop your overall ability to automatically transfer any action in the mirror image to the other hand. The next time you take on a new activity with your left hand, which you usually do with your right, you will act from the very beginning a little more dexterously than if your left hand was not accustomed to such exercises. It may take years for the left hand to equalize with the right, but after two months it will come close to it. Once you have learned to handle your left hand dexterously enough, you do not need to impatiently push for it to catch up with your right hand. If you are in a rush to become ambidextrous and are prepared to be slow at first, you can skip steps 2-7.
9. 9 Do not forget that you must do everything left. You will already be using the right one on automatism, which may prevent you from starting to develop your left actions. Accordingly, you need to constantly remind yourself of the need to work with the left, left, left!
   • For example, write on your palms “left” and, accordingly, “right” - large, bold, distinctly. A visual reminder is always helpful.
   • Put the watch over your right hand instead of your left hand. The unaccustomed weight on your right wrist will remind you that now you are doing everything with your left.
   • Alternatively, stick stickers on all things - on the door handles, on the refrigerator and on the phone as well. Looking at the stickers, you will remember that you need to pick up these items with your left.

Tips

• Practice writing with your left only at home. At school or at work, write with your dominant hand until you can write with your left quickly and accurately.
• When you start doing everything with the left, try not to use the right.
• Do your daily chores with your left hand - keep a plug, remote control, and so on in it.
• Be patient and take your time.
• Everything that you have done hitherto with the right, henceforth do with the left.
• When learning to write with the left, do not forget about posture.
• Pay particular attention to writing sentences containing all letters of the alphabet.
• When writing with your left hand, look with your right eye.

Warnings

• Remember that you will have to spend a lot of time learning how to write with your left hand.
• Don't hammer in nails with your left hand until you are truly ambidextrous.
• Do not try to slice anything in the kitchen with your left hand using your knuckles to guide the knife. Moreover, do not try to do this quickly, otherwise you may injure yourself.
• Changing your hand can be disorienting, so take your time.