use your bad hand to calm down

[star ark]

I just stumbled across this and it immediately "slightly" worked for me. The theory is that most people are right handed, using your right hand involves the left hemisphere and the left hemisphere controls language among other things. Use your computer mouse with your left hand, pick up the coffee mug with your left hand etc will engage the right hemisphere, quiet the mind and open up the more intuitive side of our minds.

Has anyone heard of this? 

Not sure what the implications are for left handers

[SOUL]

That title though.... it had a bunch of interpretations pop into my head all at once and I laughed at the absurdity of it.... Then the actual topic wasn't any one of those...haha, I'm can use both hands and am better with one for some things and the other for others. What does that mean? Who knows...huh

[star ark]

25 minutes ago, SOUL said:

That title though.... it had a bunch of interpretations pop into my head all at once and I laughed at the absurdity of it.... Then the actual topic wasn't any one of those...haha, I'm can use both hands and am better with one for some things and the other for others. What does that mean? Who knows...huh

Hahaha not really fapping atm, maybe next time I'll switch sides. There are actually lots of articles that claim to know but they only guess, it's not some new discovery or anything like that, but it seems to be way more than an old wives tale. Apparently there are all sorts of benefits from growing new brain cells, opening the right hemisphere (assuming you are right handed) the fact it involves so much focus will essentially be very mild meditative/mindfulness work. 

Either way the focus I need to apply just using my left hand does shut my brain up for a few moments

[phoenix666]

I started eating with my left hand to eat slower years ago. it in fact becomes a more mindful activity, since you have to focus on it more than usually. thanks for the idea, I'll try this in other activities as well 

[star ark]

1 hour ago, phoenix666 said:

I started eating with my left hand to eat slower years ago. it in fact becomes a more mindful activity, since you have to focus on it more than usually. thanks for the idea, I'll try this in other activities as well 

Brilliant! I like to learn about any "ego hacks" to trick myself when I am particularly present and sensible. I'm gonna try that one too 

[Nathalie]

I start to make exercises to practice foreign languages writing them down with my left Hand (I'm normally a right hander..), just because it always seems to be so boring to write all this things with the only objective to learn the vocabulary better  ..and now it's really fun :-)

so I can also apply here the fact that: "the journey is the reward"