Your Brain's Physical Exercise Will Make You Intellectually Better

As you may have known, your brain works in a complicated manner. The left side of your brain controls the actions and movement of the right side of your body while the right side of your brain controls that movement of the left side of your body. It may be possible that the side of your brain which controls your dominant hand is more used than the other side. So, if you use your non-dominant hand to do some of your daily activities, do you think it would better your brain's performance?

If you are a right handed person, then most of the time you are stimulating the left side of your brain. If you use your left hand in doing certain tasks, you are able to stimulate the right side of your brain. By doing this, you are awakening the part of your mental faculties that is intuitive and creative. If you are a left handed person, and you use your right hand in doing simple tasks, then you are stimulating the side of your brain that is rational and organized.

There is a book entitled Using Both Sides of the Brain by Tony Buzan. According to Tony Buzan, doing simple exercises or cross-trainings like this could bring additional features to one's mental functioning, and at the same time there will be a total improvement in one's brain power. By doing this continuously, a person may stay mentally young and fresh.

There are other activities which can stimulate the other side of your brain that may be done without really straining yourself. You can just simply walk around your room with your eyes closed, or you can get dressed, or undress with your eyes closed. You can also go back and try some of your childhood games; the game when you rub your stomach with one hand while tapping your head with the other hand is a good brain exercise. Simple tasks like these already constitute physical exercise for your brain, and they can bring good effects to your brain, no matter how trivial they may seem to be.

You may start to wonder regarding the mental condition of the ambidextrous people who are blessed to be able to use both their hands for complicated tasks such as writing. You may think that since they are stimulating both sides of their brain that they are more intelligent than others. This is a misconception; there are no studies or researches which can substantiate this idea.

There are individuals who are able to teach and train themselves to use both their dominant and non-dominant hands to do tasks, and sports like Cricket players. Their training does not necessarily turn them into academic geniuses; so, this may be too much to ask for.

So, whether or not these simple exercises may make you a little bit more intelligent, these physical exercises are still believed to have good effects on your brain. Academically, the results may be minor, or even go unnoticed, but there can be other things which are affected, such as your creativity, organization, and other related features. One thing worth noting is that by doing these exercises, you are stimulating the side of your brain which is not used as often as the other side. Don't you think it would be best to keep them balanced? If you want to better your brain's performance, you might as well try to stimulate your whole brain, and not just a single side.