Ambidextra - is it innate or acquired?

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 about it. Such a reaction is a consequence of a lack of information on this topic. Let's try to find out what it is.

Ambidextra is a person who equally can use either right or left hand in any process, which means that his left and right hemispheres are equally developed.

Scientists are still finding out whether this is an exclusively positive feature or whether it can negatively affect any processes of the person's mental and mental activity and the full-fledged work of one hemisphere. But one fact is known for sure: every child since birth - ambidextr. This proves that the described ability is innate. Exception here, perhaps, will be only children born with physiological abnormalities.

Most parents teach their child to use only one right hand, that is to work the left hemisphere of the brain, responsible for rationality, logic and analytical thinking. Less often happens the situation when the child himself is accustomed to keep a pencil and a spoon in his left hand, that is, he becomes a lefty. In this case, the right hemisphere of the brain predominates, which is responsible for intuition, creative thinking and imagination. Even less often, when the 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 you can find out if a person has some kind of hemisphere of the brain more than the other, or he is ambidextrous. 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 results of the test he is ambidextrous. This suggests that the left hemisphere of the brain dominates it, but the right one is also quite developed, and under certain exercises it can achieve the equivalent work of both hemispheres.

But what about those who are full-fledged right-handed or left-handed? It turns out that not all is lost. Scientists have found out that a person at any age can restore this ability.

So how do you get both your hemispheres to work? How to become an ambidextrom? The answer is simple: the result is achieved by long trainings that require the work of the second hemisphere. You can start with the spelling of the other hand. A first-grader at school works a long handwriting, the story is the same here. After that, you can complicate the task. All the actions usual for the leading hand, perform alternately with both limbs. This task is feasible, you only need to be patient and diligent, doing every day.

Summarizing, we can now say that ambidextr is a person who has the ability to use both hemispheres of the brain equally, developing it from birth, or restoring it at any age through training and exercise.