Have you ever received a gift that literally changed your life?
This exactly what happened to me when my stepmother gave me a gift certificate for The World’s Biggest Bookstore, which unfortunately no longer exists.
It sat in a drawer for a few months until I finally got around to going downtown to the store and checking out the books, hoping to find something interesting.
I found a great book, which was all about graphology, which is handwriting analysis. Skeptical at first, I quickly became amazed at what handwriting could tell about someone’s personality.
I went on to do an 18-month certification course, culminating in study in Chicago.
Over the years, I applied my analytical skills many times, for business applications and even forensic work when I was on staff with The Police Charter.
I did work for Canada Border Services, and a major zoo when they were getting threatening letters, and analyzed the handwriting of an unstable doctor for a Toronto hospital.
And it always amazed me.
Like the time I was on tour in the UK and staying at a hotel in Reading, England…
I got in late from a hypnosis and found a scribbled note pushed under my door. It was about a phone call from someone.
I didn’t understand the content of the note, so the next day I inquired at the front desk, but they had no knowledge of the note, as it wasn’t from their message pad.
I glanced at the writing and told the manager that it was written by someone who was solitary, decorated with books, loved spicy foods, and walked with a heavy tread.
Oh! That’ll be Joe, the night watchman! said the man.
Over the years, I did a college and university talk called Are you dating a psychopath? I would do a brief lecture and then the students would line up to hear all about the handwriting they provided me with, and the personalities of those behind the writing.
It got so I became really fast in extracting the key traits, often doing about 50 or 60 readings in a row.
And always, the most skeptical students stood there in shock as I unpacked the hidden jealousies, repressed emotions, desire for revenge, predisposition to violence, and dozens of other traits.
Once I was teaching in Whistler BC for New York Times bestselling author Neil Strauss and was mobbed during the break by attendees, who all wanted to know what their writing showed. One of them was a medical doctor who clearly thought it was all bunk.
What does my writing show? he asked with a smirk.
I responded that it showed very little, and he smiled triumphantly, and began to walk away. Then I asked him how he managed to conceal and deal with his nearly uncontrollable sexual aggression…
He instantly responded with just two words.
"Holy sh*t!"
He went red to the roots of his hair.
But how is it possible that handwriting tells a trained graphologist so much? The reason is large numbers of samples. For over a hundred years, writing samples have been collected and analyzed, making comparisons and asking questions like these:
What does the writing of 500 high achievers show?
What writing traits show up in successful suicide notes?
Where can we see generosity and friendliness in a sample of handwriting?
Once the patterns were identified, the researchers began to work backwards, applying what they’d learned about patterns to specific handwriting samples.
Universities like the Sorbonne in Paris and the University of Heidelberg made it a mainstream branch of psychology.
That’s because handwriting is actually brain writing.
It’s a complex neuromuscular activity in the prefrontal cortex. And when the personality changes, the brain causes the handwriting to change too.
But there’s an even more astonishing aspect to this, which is if you change your writing, you’ll change your personality too.
Graphotherapy is a new field, but an amazing way to improve your life by adding or changing some traits in your writing, and here’s how:
A simple way to add self-reliance to your personality is to underline your signature in a single, left to right underscore, making sure it’s under the name, not cutting through it.
By making this your usual signature, you’ll add the ability to go it alone, when you face challenges, and have no support from others.
Another excellent trait to add is to make the loops in the small letters g and y large and full, coming back and crossing the baseline the letters rest on. This will add desire for variety, help you expand your social group, and bringing creative imagination to your available skills.
And how high up is the crossbar of your small letter T? Push it much higher up the stem, make it longer, and slightly upslanted. This adds willpower, enthusiasm, and desire to succeed; leadership traits that all high-achievers have.
Practice these traits and build them into your writing, and in about a month, you’ll notice them appearing in your personality.
It’s the easiest self-therapy in the world!
And don’t bother emailing me to look at your handwriting, because I don’t do personal handwriting analysis.
But by making just those few changes I recommended, you’ll go a long way to improving the quality of your own life.
- Mike Mandel
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