Vimala Rodgers - Your Handwriting Can Change Your Life

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Symbols are the key to communication. Read this fascinating book about self-expression to understand yourself and your ability to change.

Bernie Siegel, M.D., author of Love, Medicine and Miracles and Prescriptions for Living

Vimala offers a fresh, pure, and striking alphabet to anyone whose handwriting needs some encouragementeven those who are ready to give up. If you clutch and go dismal at the thought of presenting yourself on paper, you need this book.

Margaret Shepherd, author of Calligraphy Made Easy and The Art of the Handwritten Note

What yoga is to the body-mind, Vimala Rodgerss work is for the mind-body. I highly recommend her joyful book to everyone on the path toward healing and wholeness; its a missing link in the holistic field.

Andrew Ramer, author of Angel Answers and Revelations for a New Millennium

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

To Martha & Red Fisher in Mississippi, and Carol & Ralph Meyer in Pennsylvania, I extend an extraordinary thanks for housing me on my sabbatical so this book could be written. A thanks of equal magnitude to my brilliant editor, Marcela Landres, at Simon & Schuster, whose kindly nature unfailingly exudes clarity, directness, honesty, lightheartedness, and understandinga rare package indeed. I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Part One

INTRODUCTION
TO HANDWRITING
ANALYSIS

Chapter 1

WHAT IS HANDWRITING?

The focus of this book is to guide you, the reader, in allowing your hidden gifts, ideas, and abilities to tumble forthtreasures that you tucked away early on. As young children we all developed our own reasons for denying what we really loved to do or for not expressing an idea that no one had heard of before. Innocently sharing it and being greeted with adult ridicule rather than encouragement was often enough to have us quietly stuff those special ideas into a secret place insidebut they dont go away. They merely hide... waiting, waiting.

The wall that barricades these special gifts and sabotages our intentions to let them come out of hiding is a simple four-letter word: fear . It lives in our mind. We have put it there, and only we can dismantle it and allow our unique gifts to surface.

I can hear your question: What does my handwriting have to do with all this? I thought youd never ask.

HANDWRITING

Our handwriting is far more than a succession of words put together to create a means of communication. It is a map of our attitude toward life, a labyrinthine pathway to long-forgotten hiding places inside, a diagram of our subconscious mind. In simple terms, our writing patterns are clear indicators of how we feel about ourselves. They are a measure of our self-confidence, self-esteem, and self-reliance; they indicate our fears as well as our unique abilities. Self-image is the lens through which we see life, and handwriting patterns mirror the components of the prescription in that lens.

Although the handor teeth or toesholds the pen, it is the brain that causes it to move as it does. When we write, each movement of the pen not only reflects the attitudes we have about ourselves, it reinforces them. Each time we press the pen to the paper to create a letter formation, connect letters, or shape a margin, we are declaring, This is who I am. The more often we write in a specific manner, the more deeply that attitude is ingrained in our psyche.

Most of us have seen handwriting that caused us to gasp, laugh, or feel a certain way. Signatures especially. At one time or another you may have shown an unknown writers handwriting or signature to someone and said, Look at this! You dont have to be a handwriting expert to gain insights about people through their writing. Essentially, handwriting is a graphic representation of our interpretation of life, indicating how we feel about ourselves and how this feeling affects our view of those around us.

GRAPHOLOGY

Graphology, also called handwriting analysis, is the science that correlates handwriting patterns with personality traits. Professional graphologists are trained in the interpretation of handwriting patterns and their relationship to the personality. Their expertise lies in drawing up a list of personality traits based on a thorough study of a handwriting sample.

GRAPHOTHERAPY

Graphotherapy is the behavioral science that invites the writer to take pen in hand and change self-defeating aspects of the personality by altering specific strokes in the handwriting. Graphotherapists are trained in graphology and have additional training in psychology. Their expertise is to guide the client in altering handwriting patterns as a means of removing negative thought habits and replacing them with positive, self-supportive ones. By changing writing patterns we simultaneously reconfigure the neuropathways in the brain that record our self-image.

WRITING SYSTEMS

I have been fascinated with handwriting patterns since before I could read; as far back as I can remember, the letters of the alphabet have been a special source of intrigue and discovery for me. When as a young teen I took on the study of interpreting handwriting patterns, I ended up doing my own empirical research as I found that most books on graphology were either outdated or did not agree with one another. Through my own studies I discovered that Truth occurs not from belief but only through experience.

From studying pictures of scratchings on ancient cave walls to papyrus rolls and mysterious alphabetical etchings such as Ugaritic script, Akkadian cuneiform, Linear A, and Linear B, my interest in handwriting gained momentum. As I investigated writing systems and phonetic alphabets from around the world I became intrigued at the cross-cultural patterns among them. I found that it was not just the Hebrew or Greek Cabala or the Germanic runes that ordained a special meaning to each alphabetical letter, but that countless traditions around the world did the same thing; the Roman alphabet was no exception.

Then there is Sanskrit. The more deeply I study this incredible language, the foundation of all Indo-European languages, the more spellbound I become by the ancient alphabet in which it is written called Devanagari or script of the gods. The Sanskrit language itself, known as Devavani or language of the gods, is not only a deep well of spiritual knowledge, it is also mathematically and tonally precise.

For now, however, the Roman alphabet remains my touchstone, for it is an amazingly rich acculturation of numerous traditions. Besides, I am passionately in love with the English language.

THE VIMALA ALPHABET

In my freshman year of college I took the required Logic course, memorized all of Aristotles syllogisms, and came up with a personal vision based on conclusions predicated on a modified syllogism of my own. Here it is:

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