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8 Reasons Why Handwriting is an Essential Brain Exercise

While there have been proposals for schools to remove teaching cursive writing to children, the benefits of learning (and continuing) to write by hand have been pointed out.

 

Here are eight reasons why handwriting is an Essential Brain Exercise:

1. Handwriting activates a unique neural circuit, which makes learning easier. The handwritten word stimulates our brain.
2. More ideas are expressed when one writes by hand.
3. Cursive writing may be a path to treating dyslexia. 

Cursive writing aids in preventing the reversal and inversion of letters, a common dyslexic occurrence.

4. Note taking among college students is a good memory booster.

Handwriting as it helps them better understand concepts and facts, versus typing on a keyboard where information is not properly retained. 

5. Writing by hand strengthens the learning process thereby producing a healthier mind, while typing produces “mindless processing.”
6. Handwriting is a key step in cognitive development.

This is especially acknowledged by schools where cursive writing is first taught to students in primary school.

7. Writing by hand — and even going beyond that — sketching, drawing, doodling, is a necessary mode of human connection.

It is probably the most beautiful manifestation in human relations. Various writers and artists give a glimpse of the beauty of handwriting and hand-drawn work.

8. Handwriting entails movement, from the holding of the pen to the touching of the paper to create letters; thus is considered a good sensory motor exercise.

In handwriting, the brain receives feedback from a person’s motor actions which helps establish a connection between reading and writing.

Writing by hand is considered a skill since it involves a perceptual component and handling of some technical tool (pen, pencil, paper) resulting in something visual; it is also a personalized representation of ourselves. We write reminders, notes, lectures, articles, letters, love letters, birthday cards, or just scribble a grocery list or sign on our checks. But whatever type of handwriting we do, whenever we do so, we are giving ourselves the gift of brain training and brain exercise. In this digitized world, there is nothing wrong with keeping the tradition of hand writing, because behind your signature, is your soul.