We all know that juggling and hand-eye coordination have always gone hand in hand. No pun intended. But that is not the only positive affect on your body that you can receive from juggling. It has been proven multiple times that juggling leads to an increase in white matter and grey matter in your brain. White matter is one of the two components of the central nervous system. Not only does white matter increase, but your brain actually expands. A German study in 2004 of 24 non-jugglers showed that the half who juggled everyday for three months, came out with an "increase in gray matter in two areas of the brain involved in visual and motor activity, the mid-temporal area and the posterior intraparietal sulcus" (Medicalnewstoday.com).
Professor Sherry Turkle of MIT would certainly be pro-juggling if she heard that juggling not only gets you off the Internet, but makes your brain bigger. I'm going to go ahead and assume that Facebook does not do anything to help your brain. Probably neither does Google, Youtube, or those other sites that are often frequented online. EVERYONE SHOULD START JUGGLING. Our worries about the new age of technology and the Internet would be greatly diminished.
Juggling can be related to everything. Art's, Sports, Science, you name it and i'll find a way to incorporate juggling. On a side note it helped very greatly in getting me into college, nbd.
I will leave you with a quote from Jason Garfield, the President of the World Juggling Federation and my best friend.
"You call juggling a sport and people laugh, you call juggling an art and people laugh, when you say there is a juggle magazine people laugh a lot, you punch them in the face and they stop laughing"
Wow! I never knew that juggling had an effect on brain size!
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