Handwriting Analysis: An Adventure in Self-Discovery, Third Edition

Finally, here are a few personal observations about the compatibility of humans:

• If you think you can change other people, you are probably better off trying to push string uphill or nail Jell-O to the wall. It very seldom works.

• People we care about often reflect much of ourselves back to us. If we don’t like what we see in the mirror, it’s pointless to try and rearrange the image in the mirror. Instead, the change process most often begins with ourselves.

• If we want someone to understand us, it generally works better if we make an effort to understand them first.

• If we can keep quiet and really listen to others, we have a much better chance of understanding them.

• Strangely, if we are looking to get something, we can often accelerate the process by being a giver first.

That’s generally how it works and yes, there’s a few exceptions to each of these ideas but not as many as we often think

Interesting too, among quite a few knowledgeable people, there is the idea that, in our digitized world, we are losing some important brain function when we reduce the amount of cursive writing that we do. Educational Kinesiologists and some behavioural scientists tell us that cursive writing, martial arts, meditation and certain other activities can increase the number of nerves in the corpus callosum, that mass of nerves that joins the two hemispheres of the brain. This means that handwriting and some of these other activities can enhance the integration of the two halves of the brain and thus improve overall brain performance

Greek e’s, delta d’s or figure eights found typically in g’s, f’s or s’s

Narrow or closed e’s, as opposite to the wide or open e’s that indicate broad-mindedness

I-dots and j-dots are formed like dashes or jabs and are usually positioned to the right of the stems. Also, t-bars on the right of and touching the stems. The heavier the stroke, the more intense the irritability and the longer it takes to recover from the feeling

Incomplete or open lower loops in the g, j, y or z

T and d-stems are no taller than twice the height of the lower-case letters

Loops. The larger the loops, the larger the imagination. Loops below the base line indicate material or practical imagination. Loops above the height of the lower-case letters indicate abstract or conceptual imagination

Circles instead of dots over i’s and j’s

Soft flourishes leading into a downstroke. They are most frequently found in capital M’s and N’s