Handling

HANDS
 Hand Contact Improvisation Exercise one hand against the other. Flexing, pressing and rolling the hands together: find every possible combination of mutual contact and motion. Take all the routes that one hand can find rolling around the other.


 * Focus your attention on the sensations coming from each hand and allow this information to gradually build a mental map of your hands in action.


 * Note sensations arising from the surface of the skin and from hairs.


 * Note sensations from the muscle and flesh of the hand.


 * Note sensations from the bones.


 * Gently find the limits of the flexure of each joint. Allow the wrist to relax.

Spend five minutes per day on this excercise. Continue for ten days with one days rest.

 Arm and Hand Throw many different assorted objects into a bucket on the other side of the room. Choose a distance at which you are likely to achieve about 50 per cent success.

10 mins per day. Rest every 5th or 6th day.

Continue until a screwed up sheet of paper will stand a 90 per cent chance of finding the inside of the bin when thrown over your shoulder.

Alternatively a darts board will fit into almost any room. Chart your progress with ten minutes a day throwing at 20 practice. When this is 95 percent go on to a double or bulls eye.

 Hand Reconnection Program Day 1. examine your hands intently and lovingly for a full fifteen minutes; nails, fingers, thumb, palm and back of the hand. Then for five minutes lay the hands out flat and imagine the hands lengthening. This image will allow the hands to relax to a greater degree than it is possible to will conciously.

Day 2 - 5. Use each hand to draw a map of the other hand as best you can. Mark the creases, scars, veins, joints and other marks carefully. Do one side per day.

Day 6. Consider your right hand, relaxed and palm up. Move the fingers and thumbs slowly and resolutely, although still relaxed, towards the palm with full attention. Touch the palm amd open the fingers again. Repeat six times.


 * Repeat the above but more tensely. End up making a fist. Do this six times.


 * With hand extented slowly splay fingers and thumb. Then return together. Do this six times.


 * Repeat the above three excercises for the left hand.

Day 7. Rest.

Day 8 - 13. Repeat exercises as for day six.

You are connecting the hand with your concious attention in these excercises as you first did when you were about 8 - 12 weeks old. You are imbuing the hand with importance and opening channels for its powerful operation. The most important quality to apply to these exercises is concentration.

exercise Fast Finger Parting

 One-handed Task Prepare a simple meal with you right hand tied behind your back. Repeat with other hand tied.

In addition to giving insight into how we use our this is an ingenuity excercise. Note: Barbara Clark claimed that use of the non dominant side of the body in everyday tasks such as drinking tea, brushing teeth and combing hair will improve body alignement.

 Drawing Freehand Circles

Make the circle big enough to fill a sheet of paper or page of an exercise book. The with a pair of compasses enscribe a circle of similar radius. This is used to check the accuracy of your hand drawn circle. Do the hand drawn and mechanically drawn circle in different colours.


 * Continue the process of hand drawing circles within the circumference of the first large circle, gradually decreasing radii to make a series of concentric circles.


 * Continue this practice everyday until you become accurate.


 * Compare your first effort with one after ten days practice.

Note; You may find it best to poise and then draw the circle quickly, with a flourish...

 Hand Draw Lines Rule a lot of straight black lines randomly arranged on a large sheet of paper. Then with a red pen draw freehand lines parallel to the black lines. Experiment with drawing speed and distance apart.

Repeat once each day and pin up the drawings in a row on the wall.

 Hand Tracing Take a piece of tracing paper and, with a pencil, trace a small object from a magazine. Then turning to another part of the magazine continue the drawing by tracing another object or shape. Keep selecting parts of images and adding them to your composite tracing working fast without thinking of any final result. Adjustments may be made to the picture with rubber and pencil.

The first few attempts will probably be aesthetically disappointing, but amazing things will appear if you stick with it.

Pleasing results can of course be tidied up and inked in.

 Paired Finger Tapping