Non-Dominant Affirmations

The Non-Dominant Hand Hack: 30-Day Challenge to Silence Clutter & Find Your Inner Voice ✍️ 

The fastest way out of mental clutter and the doom loop of negativity is through your other hand.

This self-help episode introduces the powerful mindset hack: Write one short affirmation with your non-dominant hand for 30 days.

The science of the awkward:

• Awkwardness is the Doorway: Fine-motor focus on shaky letters forces mental noise to recede, instantly interrupting rumination.
• New Neural Pathways: It engages fresh brain parts, quieting the inner narrator for a calmer inner voice (your soul).
• Embodied Repetition: Physical writing creates a deep, felt experience, not a hollow slogan.

This builds resilience by training tolerance for discomfort. It’s not about ambidexterity—it's about becoming more present and intentional.

Takeaways for Mental Clarity:

• The Left-Hand Hack: A safe tool to interrupt chaos and get out of your head into presence.
• Science of Stillness: Fine-motor focus occupies the urge to control, creating a pocket of stillness where your inner voice surfaces.
• Awkwardness = Growth: Discomfort signals fresh neural pathways and adapting. This rehearses courage for worthwhile dreams.
• Choosing Your Affirmation: Pick a concise, aspirational statement (e.g., "I'm brilliant, bright...").
• Friction-Free Routine: Do not fix the messy letters; let the messiness stand as proof you showed up.
• Building Resilience: Rehearse courage daily to become responsive, not reactive.
• Result = Momentum: Trade the doom loop of negativity for an upward success cycle and self-trust.

Join the 30-day challenge for practical momentum and clarity!

• 30-day non-dominant hand writing challenge for clarity.
• Writing affirmations with your non-dominant hand benefits.
• Mindfulness techniques for busy people.
• How to build tolerance for discomfort in personal development.
• Neuroscience of fine motor tasks and calming the mind.
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• "How does writing with your non-do

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Episode Transcript

Jana Shelfer (00:00):
Are you ready to create a life you crave?
Let's spin that doom loop ofnegativity into an upward
success cycle and startLiving Lucky®.

Jason Shelfer (00:14):
Good morning.

Jana Shelfer (00:15):
I'm Jana.
I'm Jason.
And we are Living Lucky®.

Jason Shelfer (00:18):
You are too.

Jana Shelfer (00:19):
Here's our hack for today.
Write an affirmation with yournon-dominant hand.
Do this for 30 days.
That's so hard for me.
Wait, is it so hard to do itfor 30 days?
Is it so hard?

Jason Shelfer (00:34):
It's so hard writing with my left hand.

Jana Shelfer (00:35):
Oh, I know, right?

Jason Shelfer (00:37):
Like it is just something, and it's just because
I don't do it ever.

Jana Shelfer (00:42):
Really?
Yes.
Because I feel like if wepracticed a little more, it
might get better, but it stillwould feel awkward.

Jason Shelfer (00:50):
I almost lost my left arm in an accident when I
was 12.

Jana Shelfer (00:53):
That is true.
In a tomato packing plant.

Jason Shelfer (00:56):
I was so thankful it was my left because I was
like, what would I do?

Jana Shelfer (01:02):
Oh, I know.
It's so weird that you bringthat up because in the last
couple months, we havebefriended some one-armed
people.
Right.
And I think that every time.
I'm like, oh my God.

Jason Shelfer (01:13):
But you know what's funny is, and we talk to
them about, well, were younon-dominant?
Is that your non-dominant?
And oftentimes it's like, wewill figure it out.

Jana Shelfer (01:24):
So I know, but still there's that awkward.
I mean, it just feels awkward.
Even I played basketball for somany years, and we practiced
over and over left-handedlayups.
Left-handed layups.

Jason Shelfer (01:37):
Dribbling, dribbling for the first time for
me with my left hand was just,it was like something that
wasn't gonna happen.
The more I practiced, thebetter I got.
Like I looked like I was tryingto dribble a rock when I tried
to dribble with my left hand.
Like my wrist just wasn't gonnapush the ball down.
It wasn't gonna receive therock or the basketball

(02:00):
gracefully.
So, and that this is the wholething about going after a
worthwhile dream, is it's notgonna feel natural at first.
It's gonna feel scary.

Jana Shelfer (02:11):
Okay, so let's not get squirreled off.
We're talking about writingwith your left hand.
And I oftentimes will go to myjournal, and if I get stuck or
if I get somehow writer's blockor whatnot, if I put it in my
left hand, all of a suddenthings start flowing.
And here's the science behindit is because you are so

(02:35):
concentrated on making theletters that you get out of your
thoughts.

Jason Shelfer (02:43):
Yes.

Jana Shelfer (02:44):
You get out of your head, and you start tapping
into a part of your brain whereyour soul is speaking, and you
can actually listen for a for aa chance because you're not so
busy trying to orchestrate.

Jason Shelfer (03:03):
Oh, you're not trying to control.
Control.
Well, so there's this there'sthis part of you that's just so
focused on the movement of yourhand that the rest of life is
around you, is is the noise isgone.

Jana Shelfer (03:17):
It's the same concept.
I know many times I've talkedabout my puzzles, but my puzzles
do this same little techniquefor me.
If I'm busy with my hands andbusy looking for the pieces, all
of a sudden I start hearingthis inner voice deep, deep,

(03:37):
deep within.
It's very still, but for somereason I have to almost keep
those the chaos occupied.

Jason Shelfer (03:47):
Oh, interesting.

Jana Shelfer (03:48):
Does that make sense?
It does make sense, and it'sthe same concept with writing
with your left hand.
When you write with your lefthand, you're you're trying to
get the letters.
You're like, wait, does an S gothis way or or the other way?

Jason Shelfer (04:01):
And I think it just opens up a newness.
It opens it creates this newarea of beingness within you
that creates a new availabilityof you for whatever's coming.

Jana Shelfer (04:13):
Yeah.
No, it's so weird that we aredoing this challenge right now
because I just two days ago, Iwas on a call with my, I call
her my niece, but she's reallymy cousin.
She's really my second cousin.
And I told her the same thing.
I'm like, you know what?
To get outside of the clutterin your mind, write with your

(04:36):
left hand.
Write with your left hand.
And then this morning, Jasonsaid, I think we need to do a
30-day challenge.
We need to write an affirmationwith our left hand for 30 days.

Jason Shelfer (04:47):
Yeah, it's because that's to me, that's
something that is not natural.
It's a little bit, it freaks meout a little bit because I I
don't want to write one.
I it's nothing I don't want todo.

Jana Shelfer (04:58):
Really?

Jason Shelfer (04:58):
It is.

Jana Shelfer (04:59):
Oh, I'm so excited to do this.

Jason Shelfer (05:01):
Well, I am too, because I like doing things that
I don't necessarily want to do.

Jana Shelfer (05:05):
Okay, so today I am writing.
I'm brilliant, I'm bright, I'ma radiant being of light.
And I'm gonna write that withmy left hand.
And that's all I'm gonna do.
So, like this challengeliterally will take me.
Well, I don't know, those Bs.
Sometimes B's can be a littlehard to write with your left
hand, right?

Jason Shelfer (05:25):
They turn out backwards, they turn into D's
with a hump.
Or I guess D's and B's are thesame side, aren't they?
See, I get confused justthinking about it.

Jana Shelfer (05:33):
Really?

Jason Shelfer (05:34):
Yes, because I start thinking about it.

Jana Shelfer (05:35):
I wonder if this is how people with dyslexia feel
sometimes.

Jason Shelfer (05:38):
Yeah, well, and then I get so I get a little bit
um envious of the ambidextrouspeople that are like
left-handed, right-handedperson.

Jana Shelfer (05:45):
Are you really ambidextrous?

Jason Shelfer (05:47):
Or do you think they learn to do it both both
ways?

Jana Shelfer (05:50):
Yeah, I think when they were younger, they're
like, I'm gonna be different.
Yeah, and so they startedlearning with both hands.
It's like those people ingymnastics class.
They were like, Oh, I can do itleft-handed.
I can do it right, I can do iteither way.

Jason Shelfer (06:02):
I can do a backhand spring and a forward
hand spring.

Jana Shelfer (06:05):
No, that's different.

Jason Shelfer (06:07):
Okay.
Are those not gymnastics?

Jana Shelfer (06:11):
Yeah, no, no, no.
That's gymnastics, but that'snot left hand, right hand.
That's forward, backward.

Jason Shelfer (06:16):
Okay.
That's not to me left-handed,left hand and okay.
So this is the and this is thedifference between wheelchairs
and and walkers is you thinklateral and I think left hand or
just backwards and forwards.
Like I'm thinking left toright, backwards and forwards,
and you're thinking we're in theweeds.

Jana Shelfer (06:35):
We are way in the weeds.
Cut the grass, get us out ofthe weeds.
The point of this podcast.

Jason Shelfer (06:43):
This is what happens though with our brains.

Jana Shelfer (06:45):
Welcome to our marriage.
This is what happens to Janaand Jason.

Jason Shelfer (06:49):
Left-handed, right-handed.

Jana Shelfer (06:50):
We start communicating, we have a little
disagreement, and next thing youknow, we're talking about how
to carve carrots.

Jason Shelfer (06:58):
With your teeth.
I love it.

Jana Shelfer (07:03):
Oh, yeah, it's what makes us genius.
Okay, so here's the challenge.
Write an affirmation with yourleft hand every morning for 30
days.
And then let's let's all reporttogether.
I already know what's gonnahappen because I've I've done
this exercise many times in myjournal.
However, I think a 30-daychallenge would be really great

(07:26):
for all of us.

Jason Shelfer (07:27):
That sounds exciting.
Let's do it.

Jana Shelfer (07:29):
Have a great day.

Jason Shelfer (07:30):
Keep Living Lucky®.

Jana Shelfer (07:30):
Bye bye.
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