Hi fellow Hiveians,

Today I wanted to chat about the little mental experiment I've been undergoing!

Dominant Hand Swap

I recently had an experience that I've done before but let it go off to the wayside but I made it a point to do it again. I switched up doing things with my other hand!

I recently had a fun experience with poison ivy, one that I will write about in a different post but what happened was that it got on my forearm of my dominant hand. This meant that I had to keep that arm lotioned up, loaded with all kinds of stuff and just generally not in optimal use. That meant that some things that I was doing such as eating and brushing my teeth really weren't in the easiest way possible! What did I do? I just switched up the hand I was using for most things!

It's an interesting thing where we don't really think of something as simple as just doing something with another body part, even though for the most part we have two. For example, just eating with a fork or spoon on your non-dominant hand instead of your normal dominant hand. The first few times you do it, it feels awkward and just wrong. It's incredible and funny how something so simple causes our bodies to feel so out of place! It definitely goes to human nature where we prefer things to be consistent and our brains are very efficient and do things without thinking much.

The experience with getting my dominant arm jacked up with the stuff was actually a really good one. I performed a similar experiment a few years ago where I spent an entire month or so using my non-dominant hand to do most things like brushing my teeth, eating with a fork or spoon and yes I will also admit even though people might not want to admit it: wiping your ass! Lol. It's definitely challenging doing the dirty business of wiping your ass with your non-dominant hand, almost to the point where you consider just sucking up whatever the issue is with the dominant one so you can do it. I was determined though to not fall back into complacency and I made sure to do it.

I think I came out a much different person and it was a very simple and straight forward thing that almost every person can do if they want to. I enjoyed it because it changed the wiring of my brain a little bit and it made me think a lot more of what I was doing instead of letting my subconscious just dictate the normal routine so that my active brain can focus on something else.

I think it's important to change up every day routines like this for no other fact other than just to test our bodies and our brains. Our brains improve itself when we do and learn things like this, it increases the various folds up there and these days where things are often spoon fed to us and everything is in a pattern and routine, I think it's incredibly important to break that routine so that we can make very minor improvements to our bodies and lives. Yes it may not really be that big of a deal to most but if it's not a big deal, why not give it a try and see how challenging it can be?! I certainly had the thought in the beginning that it would be simple and it turned out to not be so simple lol.

The one thing that I want to do and get better at in this current process is getting better at writing with my non-dominant hand! That one is a lot harder but I know with practice we can become efficient at it just like we can if we brush our teeth or eat with the opposite hand. I don't have the best penmanship as it is but I know that I want to at least work through my signature with the opposite hand, because I know I'm certainly going to encounter a situation in the future where I get a fish hook in my hand or something and it gets bandaged up hahaha. Can't hurt to try when the pressure is off, instead of only when the pressure is on!

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