Johnny Fincham - Palmistry: From Apprentice to Pro in 24 Hours: The Easiest Palmistry Course Ever Written

Look at your hand for a moment. Stretch back the fingers and thumb so the lines show up.

Intriguing isnt it? The network of lines marked there has fascinated man since history began. A colossal number of motor and neuron connections in the brain are devoted to the hand, out of all proportion to their physical dimensions. The portion of the brain devoted to the hands and fingers is fourteen times larger than that assigned to the face, for instance. If the hands were represented in equal ratio to the other parts of the body in the human brain theyd need to be the size of beach umbrellas!

No wonder the palms are often called the visible brain.

Palm printing

In modern practice, many readers work from a print rather than the palm itself, because more detail is revealed on a print than can be seen on the bare palm. Youll probably find yourself working from both flesh-and-blood palm and print. Its advisable to take prints whenever possible, because with a print, you can watch and record the changes in the lines over time. Another benefit is that you can study someones palm print in private, without feeling pressured to read for them. Youll find print-taking instructions at the back of this book in Appendix 1.

Right or left?

Which hand should you read the right or the left? Many traditional palmistry books will tell you that the future is marked in the right hand (assuming a person is right handed) while the past is marked in the left.

Its actually different and more subtle than that. The active hand (as the right hand is called on a right-hander) is the expression of the outward personality. Here youll find the developed, conscious, real-world expression of who and what you are. Usually the active hand has clearer and stronger lines marked on it. This is because we tend to be more focused and concentrated in our active, day-today experience than we are in our more reflective personality.