Right-Click Your Life

To find things you never knew were there

Aah…the marvel of the Right Click…which for the left-handed people will be the left click, of course. You know what I mean - the mouse click opposite to the one you normally use for basic editing. Since left-handed people constitute only about 10 per cent of the world population, I will be referring here to the right click for simplicity and common understanding.

Speaking of right vs left, I will never forgive my primary school teachers for relentlessly suppressing my natural left-hand domination by taking the pencil out of my left hand and forcing me to write with my right hand - thus rewiring my brain’s natural inclination to prioritise and express my creativity. We know that each brain hemisphere controls the opposite side of the body: the left brain controls the right side, and the right brain controls the left side. Don’t ask me why, we don’t know that (yet).

When it comes to writing which engages primarily the left brain - with its analytical, language, motor and thought processing functions - writing with the right hand (hard-wired to the left brain) makes it more difficult and requires more effort to access the creativity and imagination of the right brain.

When we learn to write with either hand, we develop it as our dominant hand stimulating its linked (opposite) brain more than the other one by as much as 60 per cent. We don’t just write with it, but use it primarily in all motor and strength functions.

Try to write something with your non-dominant hand and notice how weird that feels. You might be able to scribble a few legible words, but boy…that’s hard. Having said that, our brain is very adaptable, and it is possible to learn to write with your non-dominant hand; although I doubt that once developed, your brain domination can be reversed.

In my view, the luckiest people in the world are ambidextrous - those who can write easily with either hand and don’t have a ‘dominant’ side. Their brain hemispheres are equally developed and stimulated, in perfect balance.

Thankfully, many of my innate creative talents and creative thinking skills have been preserved to a large extent, but it took a long time for them to flourish, coming out of those early years of suppression.

This practice is so cruel and damaging to human beings that it should be outlawed, just like the enforced programming of gender identity, girls’ genital mutilation and tail docking of certain dog breeds (which is illegal in Australia). All these practices have one thing in common: those in power and control don’t like the way you are; when you dare to be outside the ‘norm’ set by them - how you look, how you develop, and God forbid have some pleasure in life - they decide that you (or it, in case of a dog) must be fixed to conform to the ‘norm’ whether you like it or not, regardless of the consequences.

Many years ago, when computers were just entering the scene (most young people can’t imagine the world BC - Before Computers - ha.ha) and the typewriter was the key office tool, I was working as an office administrator for a cozy New York company in Manhattan. One day I tripped and fell to the ground in a way that fractured my right wrist, putting it in a cast for six weeks. After a few days of leave, I was back in the office happy to resume my work - only to discover that I was unable to type, and in fact, parts of my job involved filling in various forms by hand. In desperation, I decided to learn to write with my non-dominant left hand.

And I did.

Initially, it was hard, but with daily practice it soon became easy, even enjoyable, and I felt my brain liked it. I felt different. When the cast was finally removed and I was able to use my right hand again…I almost didn’t want to, which was interesting. My left hand was jealous of losing this unusual experience to the right hand.

To this day, I can write with my left hand (which may not look pretty but it’s legible) and enjoy doing it. It feels like accessing my soul. There is a reason for recommending that automatic writing be done with the left hand, whether it’s your dominant hand or not.

Typing and tapping on various electronic devices, as well as voice dictation, increasingly replace the skill of handwriting, which slowly becomes obsolete - and in my view, this skill will soon atrophy. “If you don’t use it - you lose it” - is a key program running our mind and body. In a few years’ time, if you give a pen to your 10-year-old who grew up using nothing but screens and keyboards to write from day one, even at school - they won’t know what to do with it.

Can’t wait for telepathic communication. Microsoft, Google and Apple - eat your heart out!

Back to the Right Click.

If you’ve ever used a computer mouse (duh...), you know that it has the Left click and the Right click. The Right click is your computer program’s secret powers hidden in plain view. Truth is, we often forget about the Right click and don’t realise that it can reveal many additional functions - things we can do with our program we never knew were there.

Whenever I get stuck, going through the top menu looking for the solution to my problem and to stop my frustration - why can’t I do this?? or how can I do that?? - at some point a light bulb will flash: RIGHT CLICK! So I click and voilà - the deep secrets of my program are revealed to me in the menu and now I can do all that I wanted to do and more!

I feel like Ali Baba speaking the magical phrase: “Sésame, ouvre-toi!”
One Thousand and One Nights was my favourite bedtime childhood book. Timeless, really.

I believe that Life has left us many clues, all over the place, as a path to discover its secrets; to discover our soul’s agenda for this incarnation with all its treasures hidden in plain view.

So when you get stuck in life and feel like your tank is empty, that you have tried and explored everything you’ve got - all your skills and talents, your strengths and qualities, and there is nothing left - look around you in places you’ve never looked before and dig deep to uncover your Truth.

If you think your mission is over - right-click your life to find the treasures you never thought were there.

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