Posted by Ritch on March 23, 2002, at 14:45:53
In reply to Anyone had luck with non-dominant-hand writing?, posted by Dinah on March 23, 2002, at 11:34:49
> I am in the midst of an intraDinah war, with my emotional self and my rational self at odds with each other. My therapist has suggested that I try having a conversation with myself using my left hand to write for my emotional side and my right hand to write with my rational side. In my current feelings of charity with him, I have decided to not just laugh at his suggestion but to try it seriously. (Although my first thought was that he's been reading a bit too much pop-psych again.)
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> Has anyone done this? Has anyone gotten any results?
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> I don't even know how you go about it. He was pretty nondirective about the specifics. Do I ask a question and then sit with the pencil in my left hand hoping for a response? Or do I just start writing what I think my emotional self would say and then see if it turns into anything?
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> My darn emotional self isn't very verbal and largely communicates through bolts of feelings, leaving me to figure out what "she" wants. All I know for sure is that "her" objectives are different than mine. And that "she" is angry with me right now, for reasons I am only partly clear about. I'm not to happy with "her" either, since one of "her" weapons is the urge to hurt myself.
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> Darn. This just sounds too weird in writing. I wonder if I'll hit the confirm button?Hi Dinah,
I have never tried that stuff before or even heard of it before. But, it sure does sound interesting. Hey, to go with all the other bizarre stuff being talked about-we could pour cold water in our *left* ear (which would switch *on* the right hemisphere to really bring out the lefthand stuff), and then put those goggles on or perhaps just get an eye patch from an optometrist (Hobby Lobby?), and place that on our right eye, and then see what happens. My "right half" isn't really angry with me, he is just a little mischeivous and can't be trusted, but generally an ok dude. Up to TomFoolery. I don't know if you read my post on PB to IsoM about my left hand, but it really seemed like the "Pottsylvania Creeper" the other day. I am writing this basically in fun, but there *is* something to this bilateral hemispherical stuff. I am sure you have seen those documentaries about people with epilepsy who have the corpos callosum severed and they actually develop *two* personalities! I remember in one of them this guy said he would try to open a door with his right hand and his left hand would slam it shut immediately afterwards. They said they just had to just sit around for a while until the *other* person started becoming more cooperative.
Mitch
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