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Each side of the brain performs certain functions.
The right side focuses on the visuals and the “big picture” of something. It’s the side from which creative thought springs. The left brain, on the other hand, is the linear, detail-oriented, and logical part.
Many people tend to have a left or right brain dominance which is a factor in what they might choose for their life’s work. With that, an artist would never consider accounting for a career and vice versa.
The brain works best, however, when both sides are activated and involved in learning and activities. When both sides are engaged, neural connections are made and that allows them to work better.
Here are 10 simple exercises anyone can do to develop both sides of the brain
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Visualization is a right brain function. If nothing is done beyond that, the left brain will not engaged.
To engage both sides, take up a hands-on project of some sort- perhaps making some shelving or creating your own garden. Let your right brain visualize the end product. Then, engage the left brain by identifying all of the steps necessary to complete the project.
Some board games will engage both sides of the brain because there is a visual component to the game and also a strategic element. Chess and checkers are excellent examples of these types of game.
Players must keep in their heads the visual of the entire board while developing strategies for their moves. Sometimes, they have to come up with several moves in advance. Jigsaw puzzles offer the same coordination.
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Playing musical instruments is very much a right hemisphere activity. However, learning placement of the fingers to achieve certain sounds and reading music engages the left hemisphere.
If your work primarily involves left brain activity (bookkeeping, report writing, law research, etc.), set up physical space with art that reflects nature and music of different varieties. Having those things around allows the right hemisphere to engage, too.
Juggling requires eye-hand coordination and forces both sides of the brain to work together.
Take several pens of different colors and use each one to write the name of a color. However, the color name written must be different than the pen’s color. Now, instead of reading the words that are written, state the color. Your right brain sees the color, but your left brain must engage to remember not to read the word.
This will offset the habit of using one side of your brain more than the other.
A mind map is a visual representation of the components of a project. Creating one stimulates the creative brainstorming and visual strength of the right brain. But words must be inserted into the map and then they must be organized into categories – a left brain activity.
There are many free apps for the creation of mind maps and they are actually great starters for project work.
There are loads of apps to test brain skills and many of them will force both hemispheres into action. A good example is the color tile moving game.
Players must move tiles to create a color palette – easy enough until the added caveat of only having a certain number of moves in which to do it. Then, the left-brain strategy must kick in.
Solving algebraic equations is a linear brain function. Drawing pictures of equations takes those math problem over to the right hemisphere. This works for ration and proportion, percentage, rate, and time mathematical computations, as well.
The more connections made between the two brain hemispheres, the better problem solvers and innovators we become. Taking the logical, linear, detail-oriented cognitive functions of the left and being able to massage and manipulate them with the more creative, big picture of the right is something we all should strive for.
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