Just as bad habits are hard to break, good habits are easy to maintain, especially if you enjoy it, in either case. So why not make your next habit a good one, that allows you to enjoy exercising your brain and body simultaneously by learning how to juggle?
Exercising Your Brain
Recent studies have found that learning ability increases with the use of your offhand in normal functioning. Actions taken by the less dominant hand apparently open the brains power of thinking in ways that it is not always accustomed to, improving its overall capacity. While you could opt to brush your teeth, write, eat and drink with a different hand tomorrow, it would be difficult to put this into practice as a daily routine. Frankly, my toothbrush would end up in my eye, my writing would not be legible, and my stomach would grumble over inefficiency. Before we get too carried away and advocate complete ambidextrous behavior-for those of us who are not originally that diverse, outside of typing-I suggest waiting for further studies. Meanwhile, learn a skill that applies these techniques naturally as part of the process: start juggling.
A good workout will use both sides of the body and therefore both sides of the brain. Stroke victims sometimes lose movement to one side or the other of there bodies. If they are unable to move their left sides, for instance, the right side of their brain was affected by the stroke. The right side of the brain processes creativity. The left side of the brain is the logical counterpart. Most people are predominantly using one part of their brain more than the other. But just as we can train our bodies to function as a whole equally, we can also train our minds. It is all connected; therefore the good we do for our body improves our minds and vice versa. Juggling, therefore, can do this workout for you all at once. Juggling is both logical and creative. It uses logical timing with eye hand coordination in concession, but may be purposely interrupted by creative variance in pattern distributions. In other words, juggling naturally both manipulates and works out the brain and body functions.
Exercising Your Brain
Recent studies have found that learning ability increases with the use of your offhand in normal functioning. Actions taken by the less dominant hand apparently open the brains power of thinking in ways that it is not always accustomed to, improving its overall capacity. While you could opt to brush your teeth, write, eat and drink with a different hand tomorrow, it would be difficult to put this into practice as a daily routine. Frankly, my toothbrush would end up in my eye, my writing would not be legible, and my stomach would grumble over inefficiency. Before we get too carried away and advocate complete ambidextrous behavior-for those of us who are not originally that diverse, outside of typing-I suggest waiting for further studies. Meanwhile, learn a skill that applies these techniques naturally as part of the process: start juggling.
A good workout will use both sides of the body and therefore both sides of the brain. Stroke victims sometimes lose movement to one side or the other of there bodies. If they are unable to move their left sides, for instance, the right side of their brain was affected by the stroke. The right side of the brain processes creativity. The left side of the brain is the logical counterpart. Most people are predominantly using one part of their brain more than the other. But just as we can train our bodies to function as a whole equally, we can also train our minds. It is all connected; therefore the good we do for our body improves our minds and vice versa. Juggling, therefore, can do this workout for you all at once. Juggling is both logical and creative. It uses logical timing with eye hand coordination in concession, but may be purposely interrupted by creative variance in pattern distributions. In other words, juggling naturally both manipulates and works out the brain and body functions.
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