Exercise Your Brain

Exercise is vital to keep your brain functioning accurately and help you keep on-top of daily activities and tasks. Luckily for us, the brain is one of the only organs in the body that can regenerate itself and improve performance, so if you feel like your think-tank hasn’t been working properly, you can quite easily pick up a book or some sudoku or go get some exercise and be thinking clearer in no time.

Scientists now also believe that an easy way to exercise your brain is to change the way you perform certain activities. For example, if you are right handed, simply start performing activities with your left hand and vice versa. This is apparently excellent exercise for the brain so I’d imagine that the people of Samoa are getting amazing brain workouts now they have swopped the side of the road they drive on!

I thought it was about time I tested out this nifty trick for myself...

First of all, there is absolutely no point trying to butter toast with your opposite hand…half the toast was drenched in butter and the other half was crispy dry, so I gave up on that mission. But battling on, I decided to straighten my hair with my left hand. Again, this was a bit of a failure: not only did I burn my ear and my forehead but I singed my hair after getting it all tangled up in the straighteners and my hair brush…clearly my brain went into opposite-hand-overload!

WARNING: do not try to put make-up on with your opposite hand! Needless to say I looked slightly deranged and please also steer clear of applying nail polish. I ended up with more on my feet than on my toe nails and spent Sunday morning cleaning nail polish off my bathroom floor and walls!

Conclusion? The only thing I can successfully do with my left hand is change gears when driving! Maybe you will have better coordination than I do, but I think I’ll just stick to reading a good book or going for a long walk to keep my grey matter ticking over.