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Read and understand

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Your handwriting can say more about you than you may think. No matter how you are taught to write at school, your handwriting will,in due course, reveal your own personal style and become a unique guide to your character. T o most of us, graphology is no more than a game, on level with palmistry or tarot cards. But in reality, graphology is the study of graphic movement, and not simply ‘handwriting analysis’. It is not just handwriting that the graphologist — an expert in the science of graphology — studies but his research also includes signatures, doodles, drawings, sculptures ahd paintings, to gain an insight into the physical, mental and emotional state of the writer or the artist. HISTORY OF GRAPHOLOGY In 1875, the French Abbot, Jean Hyppolyte Michon, coined the phrase Graphology, from the Greek graph meaning, ‘to write’ or ‘I write’, and logos meaning ‘science’ or ‘theory’. Though the term graphology is relatively recent, the subject dates back to several centuries. Alfred Biner, who developed the modern lQ test, called graphology the “science of the future”. UNDERSTANDING GRAPHOLOGY Every feature of your handwriting reveals something about your character. Graphology takes into account the writing as a whole. There are 12 clues that one must look for, while analysing any handwriting. Check out these tips. They may not make you an expert overnight, but they will definitely give you important clues to look for in a written sample. Size: Large handwriting is a sign of ambition, while people with small handwriting tend to be modest. Slant: A left slant suggests that the person is shy and tends to stay in his shell. Whereas people whose handwriting slant to the right are demonstrative with their feelings. A varying slant indicates an unpredictable mind and an upright one shows that the writer has control over himself. Width: Those with narrow handwriting tend to restrict their views, while those with broad handwriting are uninhibited and move freely. Regularity: Regular handwriting suggests a steady and disciplined mind. Irregular handwriting, of course, shows a lack of discipline and orderliness. Connections: The writer who does not join hisletters together concentrates on detail rather than the whole. And the person who joins his letters sees the logical order in which things are to be done. Forms of connections: There are four kinds of connections. a) Angular: A person with stiff angular connections is firm, strong-minded, uncompromising and tense. b) Arcades: A writer who writes in high arched arcades hides his thoughts while offering a formal face to the world and does not like consulting others. c) Garlands: People who write in garlands are friendly, receptive, kind, vulnerable and gullible. GUIDE TO GRAPHOLOGY Test the qualities you think you may possess and then see if your handwriting validates your opinion Style of writing Right-slanted writing. Broad, upper and lower zone. Left-slanted, narrow and sharp strokes. Medium or small writing. Right slant with regular word spacing. Narrow, small writing with no end strokes to letters. No margins. Large, broad writing with a right slant. Large middle-zone words. Imaginative    Large, broad writing. Letters disconnected, large upper and lower zones. Rising lines, lively strokes and rounded letters. Thick ‘pasty’ strokes, broad writing but narrow word spacing. Large lower zone. Illegible, disconnected writing with a left slant and the words far apart. Warm-natured    Broad writing with ‘pasty’, thick strokes rounded letters and right slant. d) Thread-like: Those who write using thread-like connections are insecure and uncertain. Pressure: If the pressure is heavy, it suggests that the writer is full of energy and vitality and if it is light the writer is sensitive, tender and perceptive. Spacing: Those who leave large gaps between their words are usually clear-minded. And very small spaces between words mean the writer likes people around him/her most of the time. GRAPHOTHERAPY Can you change your personality if you change your handwriting? The answer is yes. Whenyou change a specific trait in your handwriting it helps alter the corresponding personality trait. This is called ‘graphotherapy’. It involves in-depth analysis of your handwriting and you. There is ample evidence to prove that graphotherapy really works. For instance forcing yourself to write uphill will help you start feeling more ‘high’ emotionally. Margins a) Left margin: The writer who does not leave a left margin lacks self-confidence and clings to the past, while a man who leaves a large left margin has the need to demonstrate that he has cut himself off from his past and can be successful on his own. b) Right margin: The person who writes till the edge of the paper leaving no margin is uninhibited and is involved with everything and everyone around him. But the writer who stops before reaching the edge of the paper fears the future and does not want to face up to it. c) Wide margins all around: Writing surrounded by space shows a sensitive and artistic nature. d) No margins: Some people leave no margins. Such people could be economical and thrifty. e) Narrow upper margin: Leaving no space at the top of the page suggests that the writer keeps a distance from his senior or superior. f) Large upper margin: Leaving a large margin at the top of the page indicates that the writer has a low opinion of himself. Quality Adventurous Cold-n atu Conventional Economical Extrovert Optimist Sensuous Unsociable Zones: The handwriting is divided into three zones — upper, middle and lower. The upper zone is associated with the mind, the middle zone indicates the ego and the self and the lower zone is related to desires, security and needs. A person whose handwriting indicates a fuller/more elaborate upper zone lives in a fantasy world and is full of heady ideas. The writer with a dominating middle zone is often egoistic, immature and is usually self-centred. A strong lower zone is a sign of someone obsessed with the physical aspects of life. Writing stroke A sharp writing (thin strokes) often implies a lack interest in things that are predominantly intellectual and spiritual, whereas a pasty writing (thick strokes) hints at someone who is self-indulgent and enjoys life. All these common features are analysed first and then the meanings are put together: whether the handwriting is neat or sloppy, big or small, round or angular, does it slant to the right or left and several other aspects. For instance, small handwriting indicates modesty but the width or slant of the letters may also suggest that the person with small writing is outgoing and friendly. THE SCIENCE OF THE FUTURE Graphology is no longer just a hobby, but can be taken up as a full-fledged career and is used in almost all segments of life (companies use the science while hiring people, to detect frauds and crime). It is also a valuable education. Aristotle rightly said, “Spoken words are the symbols of mental experience, and written words the symbol of spoken words. Just as all do not have the same speech sounds, so all do not have the same writing.” Handwriting is as unique as a fingerprint. No two people can have the same writing style. Everyone has his own distinctive style of writing, which to a graphologist holds the deep-seated stamp of his personality. It is not surprising that handwriting speaks volumes about the emotions of the writer. After all, it is the brain that signals and controls the movement of the hand holding the pen. Courtesy: Jetwings

Last Updated on Monday, 05 October 2009 10:18