The incomprehensible and at first glance frightening word "ambidextr" is more and more often found on the Internet and the media. Parents whose children are diagnosed with ambidextria are lost in conjecture and do not know what to do with it. This reaction is a consequence of a lack of information on this topic. Let's try to find out what it is.
Ambidextr is a person who can equally use both the right and the left hand in any process, which means that he has the left and right hemispheres of the brain equally developed.
Scientists are still figuring out whether this is an exclusively positive trait or whether it can negatively affect any processes of a person’s mental and mental activity and the full functioning of one hemisphere. But one fact is known for sure: every child from birth is ambidextrous. This proves that the described ability is innate. The exception here, perhaps, is only children born to the world with physiological abnormalities.
Most parents teach their child to use only one right hand, that is, to the work of the
left hemisphere of the brain, which is responsible for rationality, logic and
analytical thinking. Less common is the situation when a child learns to hold a pencil and a spoon in his left hand, that is, becomes a left-handed person. In this case, the
right hemisphere prevails, which is responsible for intuition, creative thinking and imagination. Even less often, when a child retains the ability to act with both hands equally well. According to preliminary data, such people - 1% on our planet.
Now there are various tests on the basis of which it can be found out whether a person has a developed hemisphere of the brain larger than the other or is he an ambidextr. The test is simple and allows you to quickly find out the result. Sometimes it turns out that a person from childhood wrote and ate with his right hand, but according to the test results he is ambidextrous. This suggests that the left hemisphere of the brain dominates, but the right one is also quite developed, and with certain exercises it can achieve the equivalent work of both hemispheres.
But what about those who are full right-handed or left-handed? It turns out that not everything is lost. Scientists have found that a person at absolutely any age can restore this ability.
So how do you make both of your hemispheres work? How to become an ambidextr? The answer is simple: the result is achieved through long training sessions that require the work of the second hemisphere. You can start by spelling with the other hand. The first-grader at school for a long time fulfills a beautiful handwriting, here the story is the same. After that, you can complicate the task. All actions familiar to the leading hand should be performed alternately with both limbs. This task is feasible, it is only necessary to stock up on patience and zeal, doing every day.
Summing up, we can now say that ambidextr is a person who has the ability to use both hemispheres of the brain in the same way, developing it from birth, or restoring it at any age through classes and training.