Ambidextrous, cross dominance

[seko]

Hi, Avalon Family.

I would like to talk about ambidextrous and cross dominance.

Ambidextrous: Able to use both hands, legs or feet well.

The word "ambidextrous" is derived from the Latin roots ambi-, meaning "both", and dexter, meaning "right" or favourable. Thus, "ambidextrous" is literally "right/favourable on both sides". The term ambidexter in English was originally used in a legal sense of jurors who accepted bribes from both parties for their verdict.[2]

These very few people that can be ambidextrous are rare, but we have people that are or became a good example of cross dominance which have a good skill for writing with the right hand, but they can throw a ball with skill with the left hand, or are good at kicking the ball with the left leg and karate kicks with the right one.

Now, my question is: If learn how to develop the use of both arms, legs or feet for the same things like writing, kicking, throwing, grabbing etc etc... would that make us use our brain more than the usual, become more intelligent, understanding more the use our body, better attention to our day to day activities and thoughts, more awareness.

May be develop areas of the brain that are dormant and put them in use for our benefit? May be more psychic???

What say you???

[DeDukshyn]

Isn't just a matter of practice? I played catch with my left hand for a day and by the end of the day it felt as normal as my right hand. I also wrote with me left hand for a day, and while it never felt "normal" by the end of the day I was doing pretty good. Would my brain adapt and change that fast? Maybe the "software" can replicate the "hardware" until the brain has a chance to re-wire itself, making for a faster learning ability. I think it would be excellent exercise for a brain. Sounds like a good idea to me!

[bearcow]

i have known an individual who has undergone ritual abuse at a young age, he/she has the capacity to not only write ambidextrously, but also has the ability to create a mirror image of the word in question. It can be legibly read with the aid of a mirror. This person can do this task in real time, and is second nature to them. the abuse dissociates the mind, and allows ( in some cases) the individual to access the reflecting ether. Remember Alice walked through the mirror to enter wonderland? These abusive practices break up the habitual patterns the astral body normally would have developed, and in some cases, enhance certain parts of the brain.

The person who is naturally ambidextrous, is quite often dyslexic, which means they are at least unconsciously in touch with the reflecting ether.

[nearing]

I've been ambidextrous my whole life and have a hard time believing it is so rare.

[Alie]

I provided one my children with remedial education and had a class called "brain train". If you will learn to march while swinging your arms across your chest, you will wire your brain very well. Also there is the question of dominance --- you should have only one side of your body be dominant -- your hand, ear, eye and leg. If you don't and there's a mix between right and left, you have greater incidence of dyslexia.

I'm not sure of the books, but marching and crawling (left knee to right hand, right knee to left hand) is said to improve intelligence.

[seko]

I taught myself to use my left arm and leg, because most of the time I used more my right side for everything and it gets tired.

Now I can throw a tennis ball and small rocks with my left arm and kick footballs with the left and got good doing it. But I honestly couldn't tell if I improved on my thinking or awareness.

[animalspirits]

Cross Dominance is hereditary. My father had it. I have it. My son has it. Back in the early 70s when he was diagnosed, they had me tape his wrongly dominant eye shut at night to force the other eye to become dominant and put drops in his then wrongly dominant eye to make it dilate so the other eye would take over. It worked.

Did you know that there is never a case of cross dominance in cross-eyed children because one eye is always completely dominant?

Often this is misdiagnosed as dyslexia, when in fact it is not and then the child is really screwed because the treatments are different. Not all doctors are up on the difference between the two..

It most often manifests early in life when the child is learning to read and they make the child read out loud. He his mind see the sentence correctly, but his mouth does not say what the eyes see. The problem is in the movement of information between the hemispheres of the brain. He will reverse words while reading out loud.

I was fortunate to have a Doctor that knew and correctly diagnosed my son.

[conec]

I'm ambidextrous. I kick with my right leg (I'm left-handed) and I can write with my right hand although its not as good. I remember I sprained my left hand when I was a kid and in school I wrote with my right hand and the teacher asked me why my writing wasn't as neat. I'm also a diagnosed dyscalculiac (numbers). When i spoke to a dyslexic expert and she knew I would most likely be left-handed.

[redheaded stepchild]

I'm ambidextrous and I uses my left hand for certain tasks and the right hand for certain tasks. It's all very specific for me. Also, I sometimes write whole sentences backwards.. the letters are in proper sequence, just backwards. I can read this as well as normal writing. I don't get confused when I read.. so I don't know if this is a form of dyslexia.

[nomadguy]

Posted by seko (here)
Hi, Avalon Family.

I would like to talk about ambidextrous and cross dominance.

Ambidextrous: Able to use both hands, legs or feet well.

The word "ambidextrous" is derived from the Latin roots ambi-, meaning "both", and dexter, meaning "right" or favourable. Thus, "ambidextrous" is literally "right/favourable on both sides". The term ambidexter in English was originally used in a legal sense of jurors who accepted bribes from both parties for their verdict.[2]

These very few people that can be ambidextrous are rare, but we have people that are or became a good example of cross dominance which have a good skill for writing with the right hand, but they can throw a ball with skill with the left hand, or are good at kicking the ball with the left leg and karate kicks with the right one.

Now, my question is: If learn how to develop the use of both arms, legs or feet for the same things like writing, kicking, throwing, grabbing etc etc... would that make us use our brain more than the usual, become more intelligent, understanding more the use our body, better attention to our day to day activities and thoughts, more awareness.

May be develop areas of the brain that are dormant and put them in use for our benefit? May be more psychic???

What say you???

It may be that Anyone or most people can "condition" the body to do this.
I achieved it while playing baseball and basketball as a kid. Switching hands "shooting hoops" works, dribbling too of course, then I had also practiced batting at batting cages both ways. That eventually led to switch pitching practice. I stopped there as the rigors of school/sports and my recklessness got in the way. being older and wiser I realized you can do this with anything at all. throwing pebbles, hitting pebbles with sticks...

>Rowing is a good one, as well as kayaking<<. Or swimming.
Lastly using Yoga to attempt to gain more symmetry in your movement may catapult the process. You may need to retrain your bodies muscle memory.

~

[seko]

Posted by nomadguy (here)

Posted by seko (here)
Hi, Avalon Family.

I would like to talk about ambidextrous and cross dominance.

Ambidextrous: Able to use both hands, legs or feet well.

The word "ambidextrous" is derived from the Latin roots ambi-, meaning "both", and dexter, meaning "right" or favourable. Thus, "ambidextrous" is literally "right/favourable on both sides". The term ambidexter in English was originally used in a legal sense of jurors who accepted bribes from both parties for their verdict.[2]

These very few people that can be ambidextrous are rare, but we have people that are or became a good example of cross dominance which have a good skill for writing with the right hand, but they can throw a ball with skill with the left hand, or are good at kicking the ball with the left leg and karate kicks with the right one.

Now, my question is: If learn how to develop the use of both arms, legs or feet for the same things like writing, kicking, throwing, grabbing etc etc... would that make us use our brain more than the usual, become more intelligent, understanding more the use our body, better attention to our day to day activities and thoughts, more awareness.

May be develop areas of the brain that are dormant and put them in use for our benefit? May be more psychic???

What say you???

It may be that Anyone or most people can "condition" the body to do this.
I achieved it while playing baseball and basketball as a kid. Switching hands "shooting hoops" works, dribbling too of course, then I had also practiced batting at batting cages both ways. That eventually led to switch pitching practice. I stopped there as the rigors of school/sports and my recklessness got in the way. being older and wiser I realized you can do this with anything at all. throwing pebbles, hitting pebbles with sticks...

>Rowing is a good one, as well as kayaking<<. Or swimming.
Lastly using Yoga to attempt to gain more symmetry in your movement may catapult the process. You may need to retrain your bodies muscle memory.

~

Thanks nomadguy,

I used to play baseball when I was a kid and now I'm doing yoga to stretch muscles and to help my dormant side of the body and it helps a lot, better than what I thought.

Lots of retraining going on now.

Learning to use the side of the body that you normally wouldn't use helps a lot to balance your body helping the back, lower back and posture.
It's very easy to do. 30 minutes of yoga 3 times per week helps a lot.

[RMorgan]

Hey folks,

I believe it´s just a matter of practice, I mean, you can achieve very complex muscle coordination with practice, just like a piano player, who uses both hands and read different music notation lines simultaneously.

Most good drummers are also very good with with it.

In my opinion, it doesn´t make you more intelligent.

By the way, check out this instrument, called Chapman stick. One can play both the bass and solo lines with it, with a lot of practice, of course:

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huWju0Ntn5g

Cheers,

Raf.

[seko]

Posted by RMorgan (here)
Hey folks,

I believe it´s just a matter of practice, I mean, you can achieve very complex muscle coordination with practice, just like a piano player, who uses both hands and read different music notation lines simultaneously.

Most good drummers are also very good with with it.

In my opinion, it doesn´t make you more intelligent.

By the way, check out this instrument, called Chapman stick. One can play both the bass and solo lines with it, with a lot of practice, of course:

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huWju0Ntn5g

Cheers,

Raf.

Wow, that's an excellent exercise to develop your left and right side of the brain. Combination of guitar and bass in one, interesting Raf.

[corson]

Posted by nearing (here)
I've been ambidextrous my whole life and have a hard time believing it is so rare.

i am ambidextrous as well and three of my five children are too. and as far as i know, there is no evidence of dyslexia. maybe we got lucky! i am not sure how this affects the left and right hemisphere though. i never looked to closely at that issue.
warmest, corson

[NancyV]

Wow, Raf, what a wonderful instrument! Thanks for posting that.

Taking martial arts for several years helped me become somewhat ambidextrous. If something near me starts to fall I reach out lightning fast with either hand to catch it, even without looking at it. I think martial arts like aikido, tai chi, kung fu, etc. as does yoga, help to balance out your brain so the weak side becomes more strong while the strong side doesn't need to be so dominant. Does that make one more intelligent? If balance is a component of intelligence, then perhaps it does.

[Ellisa]

Dyslexia is just one condition that leads to children having difficulty reading. All children who are not reading fluently by the middle of Primary School are not dyslexic.

It is much more likely for a child to easily learn to read if s/he has a definite dominant side- (and since we live in a right-side oriented world it is probably better that it is right- hand dominance). Many of us however have mixed dominance--- we can be right handed, left footed and right eyed! This often causes no problem at all, and often it is these people who find it easy to train themselves to use the 'other' hand or foot, and have huge success at sports and music.

Remediation of slow readers can often take them back to the early physical movement of a baby learning to walk. It is thought that those pre-walking months may be the time when a child develops the preferred dominance. The remediation is called cross patterning and consists of crawling and exercises which require them to use both sides of their bodies and use their brains too in various cross body exercises.

Maybe in ancient times a person who could respond with a degree of mixed dominance in their actions was more prized than today when literacy is so important.

True ambidexterity is quite rare. My own mother could write a sentence using both hands at the same time. Her big party trick was to write from the same spot, the left hand backwards!! Unnerving to watch!

I am a retired teacher, originally of High school English/ Social Studies but for the last 20 years of my career I qualified as well as a Special Ed literacy teacher. It's a wonderful job, the excitement of a child suddenly understanding what the scribbles on the page in front of her/him mean is indescribable!