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Issue #19 - February 13, 2000
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Brought to you by Laurie Riddell Geary, M.Ed., Coaching you to get your life
IN GEAR by making shifts, getting unstuck, finding balance and re-alignment,
accelerating your growth, and mapping the best route to your chosen destination:
a perfect life.

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Last week I printed a brief paragraph about noticing and perhaps developing your EDGE through graphology or graphotherapy. Many readers requested more information about this topic. Therefore, I asked Rhoda Riddell, expert graphologist, to write a longer article about the topic.
 

"Can you CHANGE YOUR LIFE by CHANGING YOUR HANDWRITING?"
 

What You Can't--or Won't Change..
 

        If, as evidence indicates, handwriting does not change once it has matured, and if, as handwriting analysts claim, penmanship reflects your character, then can we change our personality by changing our handwriting? This is called graphotherapy, which is still quite controversial. Some graphologists believe we can change ourselves by changing our handwriting. However, it seems probable that what you can change is fairly superficial. The leopard, the saying goes, does not change his spots. We don't change our basic approach to the world: where we
"live"--in our heads, in our emotions, in the physical world.

        A major change in penmanship comes only with mind altering events--a stroke, drugs, brain damage from any cause. The writer's use of space will show disruption and change, with lines running into each other, or other inappropriate spacing.

        But if we don't change our writing under ordinary circumstances, and if we don't change our basic personality, what can we change?

        Superficial changes--when the handwriting expands or contracts, tilts
forward or back, has a heavier or lighter pressure, even minor space changes--come with the demands of the moment, feeling expansive, repressed,
eager, cautious, energetic, ill, tired. Mood shows in handwriting in slant, pressure, size, and handwriting also shows our ability to meet the demands of the moment. Only the schizophrenic, or that person unable to act appropriately in diverse
circumstances, writes a rigid, unchanging hand.

        What does not change in handwriting under normal circumstances are the
"zones" - the mental, emotional, or physical.  Zones in penmanship are balanced in the school pattern--that pattern we first learned in school.  At that time, according to graphologists, we unconsciously project ourselves onto the page, into the environment. The upper zone (upper loops of d, l, f, t, etc.) represents the head, or intellect, ideals, imagination. The middle zone (vowels a, e, i, o, u, lower part of d, upper part of g, etc.) is the body, our emotions; the lower zone (lower loops of g, y, z) represents the physical or material world. It is the progression from the school pattern that shows your "being in the world," that is, your approach to the world: do you hurtle into the future or tiptoe cautiously? This emphasis of zone, upper in the head, middle in the emotions, lower in the physical world,  this approach to life, rarely changes.

        Measure your zones and see if you are more concerned with ideas, people,
or things. Or, knowing that about yourself, see if your writing matches that.
Could you change "where you live"? Could you change from being an intellectual to an emotional or to a  physical type?

        Your handwriting reflects who you are because it is directed by your brain.
Can you change yourself by changing your handwriting?  Who knows? This is a controversial theory but..maybe it's worth a try! "As a man <writeth>, so is he..."
 

Article submitted by Rhoda Riddell who wrote her PhD Dissertation on Handwriting Analysis as a Psychodiagnostic technique.  She currently teaches workshops on the subject for San Diego State University Continuing Education Department.

She can be reached for brief questions or for graphoanalysis at gaby1028@aol.com
 

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TAREA:
1. Get a consultation from a graphologist/graphotherapist; determine how/if you
        can change your life!

2. Read HANDWRITING: A KEY TO PERSONALITY, by Klara Roman, Noonday Press.

3. Call  or email me for a complimentary coaching session  (617-494-1422)
 

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ATTRACTING WHAT YOU WANT IN LIFE
*Middlesex Community College - Wednesday, June 7th from 6:30-9:30pm
 

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