Your brain has two hemispheres, and you may be dominant on the left or right side the same as you are left- or right-handed. According to the Middle Tennessee State University website, the right side of your brain is the visual side, and the left is the logical side. The right hemisphere processes information with intuition and in a random fashion, while the left side uses processes and sequences. If you are right-brained, you may be creative and see the whole picture before you see the individual parts that the left-brain person observes first. If your right hemisphere is not dominant, there are exercises you can do to strengthen it.
Painting or Drawing
The LearningRX website suggests painting and drawing as right-brain exercises because they encourage you to be creative and increase visual awareness. Concentration that is required to complete these tasks strengthens your right hemisphere. Painting and drawing help you exercise your right-brain qualities using images to stimulate awareness and creativity to increase your intuitive side.
Sing
The Mayo Clinic suggests activities such as singing or developing a musical talent to improve your right hemisphere. Joining a choir also adds a group atmosphere to support the right-brain association of working together with people to express creative abilities. Remembering the words to songs helps your memorization skills. Music in general will help improve your imagination and creativity, which are right-brain attributes.
Games
LearningRX.com says that to strengthen your right brain, you can play games in which you use strategies to play. To exercise the right side of your brain, choose games that require you to perform specific tasks and look at the whole picture. Card games and board games are examples. Certain video games that use images and thinking quickly can exercise the right hemisphere of your brain.
Study Maps and Charts
Diane Connell of Harvard University says that maps and charts can improve right-brain skills. Visual and space-related components of maps and charts help you see in a right-hemisphere dominant way. Finding places on the map or interpreting a chart are hands-on activities that are preferred if you are right-brain dominant.
Art Forms
Artistic pursuits that develop creativity such as knitting and other art forms are suggested by the Mayo Clinic as ways to develop your right brain. The U.S. Air Force Air University website states that right brain is the artistic brain and is responsible for your creative talents. Air University reports that teaching with right-brain activities including art, dance and drama in kindergarten classrooms increased learning significantly. If you are left-brained, you will benefit from these right-hemisphere building exercises and the ability to use both sides of your brain to accomplish your goals.
