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Cross Motor Exercise
Make a deep riding horse stance and feel grounded and connected to the earth. Place feet approximately two shoulder widths apart, knees bent. Take your left hand slightly bent at the elbow, palm towards your face. Sweep this hand backwards until it begins to reach the edge of your peripheral vision. As it does, lower it down in a circular action and begin to bring it toward your centre line palm first. Allow the hand to cross the centre line and continue until its at least level with the edge of your body (X) in the drawing. Then raise the hand in a circular action until it returns to the starting position and repeat.
Tips
Practice with one hand, and then the other. Once you are confident that you know the route of each hand then move them simultaneously. Be patient exercise requires an awful lot of information to be passed back and forth across your brain hemispheres.
Once you have mastered the physical movement you can then concentrate on your awareness and peripheral vision.
How Waving Hands Like Clouds works
This exercise
may be practiced with your eyes open or closed. With eyes open and no head movement peripheral vision will be enhanced by keeping both hands in view while increasing the size of their movement. With eyes closed, you will increase your spatial awareness, you will learn to 'know' where your hands are in relation to your body. and everyone else around you. You will also practice being aware of two objects moving in different directions simultaneously without the need to over focus on either one.
Whether you have your eyes open or closed, both hemispheres are invloved and, most importantly, are participating in a constant transfer of information from one to the other as hands pass from left visual field to the midfield, to right visual field to mid field, etc, etc. Because your awareness works in the same way when your eyes are closed this co-operation takes place.
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