This continues last week’s exploration, and gives you another opportunity to look at your handwriting to see how dynamic you are. Remember, if you would like to emulate these stroke tendencies in your writing, you will be personally ‘taking on the cloak of dynamism’ that these strokes represent.
Determination: Are your ‘y’ and ‘g’ down strokes straight? If the answer is, yes, you are indicating an excellent level of determination as reflected by your handwriting. If you find your letter ‘y’ has a down stroke that is slightly bent, it indicates your determination will be somewhat ‘go with the flow’, where you have every intention of moving toward a goal, but find things continually intervene. Try straightening this particular stroke and see how you feel!
Willpower: T-bars per se represent willpower. Check your pen pressure on your t-bars. If your pen pressure is firm, it indicates your willpower is similarly firm. If your pen pressure is weaker on your t-bars, it suggests you can be inclined toward the will of others before your own. If your t-bar stands alone and is slightly ‘dished’ like a saucer, you might like to see how you feel by straightening the stroke and perhaps increasing the pen pressure on your t-bar.
Persistence: Do you have tie-loops in your t-bars or in the mid-portion of your letter f’s? If the answer is yes, this means you have a strong persistence as reflected by your writing. You are, therefore, not someone who gives up easily, but someone who will try every possible avenue until you’re sure a course of action has been exhausted.
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Some Tendencies Indicating Dynamism In Handwriting
Now is the time for you to take a look at your own Handwriting to see how dynamic you are. The good news is that if you would like to enhance these qualities in your own Handwriting, all you need to do is to begin to incorporate these strokes.
The process of changing your handwriting to change your life is termed Graphotherapy. Some of you may remember styling your signature throughout your life to reflect your personality the way you wanted others to see you. Changing these individual strokes of your signature is a similar process. Many celebrities style their signatures in a similar manner (remember Liberace’s candelabra and piano within his signature?)
Enthusiasm: If you would like to have your writing reflect enthusiasm, see how you feel by making your stand-alone t-bars longer than it takes to cross your t-stem.
Initiative: Initiative, as reflected in one area of handwriting, is seen by break-away strokes in the mid-portion of the letter ‘h’ or in a letter ‘t’ as it appears at the end of a word. If you notice that you retrace the mid-portions of your letter ‘h’, this suggests you will opt for the tried and true; if you see break-away strokes in your letter ‘h’ it signifies you will on occasion ‘take a risk’.
Optimism: If your lines of writing move upward on your page, you likely hold an optimistic, positive outlook. Having your stand-alone t-bars move upward on your page also reflects your optimism.
Confidence: If your capital letters are almost twice as high as your lower case letters, you are exhibiting confidence. If your capital letters are as small or even smaller than the tops of your lower case letters, you are more modest. If you would like to reflect more confidence in the paper mirror that is your handwriting, see how you feel by making your capital letters a little taller.
The process of changing your handwriting to change your life is termed Graphotherapy. Some of you may remember styling your signature throughout your life to reflect your personality the way you wanted others to see you. Changing these individual strokes of your signature is a similar process. Many celebrities style their signatures in a similar manner (remember Liberace’s candelabra and piano within his signature?)
Enthusiasm: If you would like to have your writing reflect enthusiasm, see how you feel by making your stand-alone t-bars longer than it takes to cross your t-stem.
Initiative: Initiative, as reflected in one area of handwriting, is seen by break-away strokes in the mid-portion of the letter ‘h’ or in a letter ‘t’ as it appears at the end of a word. If you notice that you retrace the mid-portions of your letter ‘h’, this suggests you will opt for the tried and true; if you see break-away strokes in your letter ‘h’ it signifies you will on occasion ‘take a risk’.
Optimism: If your lines of writing move upward on your page, you likely hold an optimistic, positive outlook. Having your stand-alone t-bars move upward on your page also reflects your optimism.
Confidence: If your capital letters are almost twice as high as your lower case letters, you are exhibiting confidence. If your capital letters are as small or even smaller than the tops of your lower case letters, you are more modest. If you would like to reflect more confidence in the paper mirror that is your handwriting, see how you feel by making your capital letters a little taller.
Sunday, May 18, 2008
The Sales Personality Through Handwriting
If you are a dynamic sales person who goes after results, you’ll have many strengths reflected in your writing. You’ll likely have a large script because this reflects people-orientation and big-picture orientation. It also means you’ll likely have a personality that ‘shines’.
Your t-bars might be quite long, indicating your enthusiasm. This enthusiasm gives you extra energy to apply to projects and tasks and, in addition, makes you a natural leader...you get excited about what you do and others just want to be a part of it. Finally, your enthusiasm gives you a good deal of charisma!
Your t-bars may also join to your next letter, and you may well have figure-8 g’s or s’s. This is termed ‘fluidity of mind’: This enhances your communication ability and allows you to ‘flow’ verbally around problems and objections, similar to the way water flows around a rock. This fluidity helps you smooth over difficult situations and/or talk your way into or out of most things. It makes you an excellent troubleshooter, for you can easily change the subject and ease it into ‘smooth waters’ without anyone realizing what you’ve done. Your stand-alone t-bars will likely be in the upper portions of your t-stems, indicating you’re not afraid to stretch out of your ‘comfort zone’.
You may have double loopings in your oval letters: This is a ‘politician’s’ stroke and means you can make a good case for something, even if you’re not entirely sure. If there are hook-like structures in your oval letters, this will have a similar effect within your personality in relation to persuasiveness.
It’s likely that the downstrokes of your y’s and g’s are stick-like, indicating you are a ‘loner’ who does your best work independently. A few of your downstrokes may have wide loops, indicating your love of variety and your ability to juggle three or four tasks at once.
There will likely be a dynamic ‘energy’ throughout your writing that will reflect in the dynamism of your own personality. Your capital letters may well be quite high, reflecting your self-confidence and independence.
Your t-bars might be quite long, indicating your enthusiasm. This enthusiasm gives you extra energy to apply to projects and tasks and, in addition, makes you a natural leader...you get excited about what you do and others just want to be a part of it. Finally, your enthusiasm gives you a good deal of charisma!
Your t-bars may also join to your next letter, and you may well have figure-8 g’s or s’s. This is termed ‘fluidity of mind’: This enhances your communication ability and allows you to ‘flow’ verbally around problems and objections, similar to the way water flows around a rock. This fluidity helps you smooth over difficult situations and/or talk your way into or out of most things. It makes you an excellent troubleshooter, for you can easily change the subject and ease it into ‘smooth waters’ without anyone realizing what you’ve done. Your stand-alone t-bars will likely be in the upper portions of your t-stems, indicating you’re not afraid to stretch out of your ‘comfort zone’.
You may have double loopings in your oval letters: This is a ‘politician’s’ stroke and means you can make a good case for something, even if you’re not entirely sure. If there are hook-like structures in your oval letters, this will have a similar effect within your personality in relation to persuasiveness.
It’s likely that the downstrokes of your y’s and g’s are stick-like, indicating you are a ‘loner’ who does your best work independently. A few of your downstrokes may have wide loops, indicating your love of variety and your ability to juggle three or four tasks at once.
There will likely be a dynamic ‘energy’ throughout your writing that will reflect in the dynamism of your own personality. Your capital letters may well be quite high, reflecting your self-confidence and independence.
Monday, May 12, 2008
The t's that Please
The letter ‘t’, perhaps more so than any other letter, reveals a wealth of knowledge about you and your personality. Here are some t-s you might like to ‘try on’ to see how you feel!
Would you like more persistence in your life? Work some tie-loops into some of your t-bars, and see how you feel. If you’d like more tenacity (a cousin trait stroke to persistence), see how you feel by making some ‘star-shaped’ t-bars. As I mentioned in my first blog, if you place your stand-alone t-bars in the upper portion of your t-stems, you’re broadcasting to others that you’ll stretch your goals way outside your proverbial comfort zone.
Enthusiasm is a real enhancer of charisma. Do you have enthusiasm within your t-bars? If your t-bars are longer than necessary to cross the t-stem, you are exhibiting enthusiasm. This not only gives you charisma, but makes you a natural leader: You don’t have to do a thing—you get excited by what you do and others want to be a part of it!
Firm t-bars represent firm willpower: If your t-bars are firm all the way through, you are unconsciously stating to others that you have firm, strong willpower.
Do your t-bars move upward on your page of writing? If so, others are ‘picking up’ that you are a positive, optimistic person who just knows that things will work out well.
Do some of your t-bars fly off he tops of your t-stems? If so, this means you are a visionary goal setter who can set long-range goals. When you have a problem, you can cast your mind into the future, see the situation solved in your mind, and, on coming back to the problem in the ‘now’ it doesn’t seem so hard to solve!
As I mentioned in my ‘Welcome Blog’, the magic of handwriting (really brain writing) is that by consciously altering particular letters (a process called Graphotherapy) you are sending different impulses back to your brain and thus altering your personality. This is why it is so important to know what a stroke structure means before you adopt it within your handwriting!
Please e-mail me if you’d like a list of 16 dynamic trait stroke tendencies (in addition to t’s) at hwriting@interlog.com
Would you like more persistence in your life? Work some tie-loops into some of your t-bars, and see how you feel. If you’d like more tenacity (a cousin trait stroke to persistence), see how you feel by making some ‘star-shaped’ t-bars. As I mentioned in my first blog, if you place your stand-alone t-bars in the upper portion of your t-stems, you’re broadcasting to others that you’ll stretch your goals way outside your proverbial comfort zone.
Enthusiasm is a real enhancer of charisma. Do you have enthusiasm within your t-bars? If your t-bars are longer than necessary to cross the t-stem, you are exhibiting enthusiasm. This not only gives you charisma, but makes you a natural leader: You don’t have to do a thing—you get excited by what you do and others want to be a part of it!
Firm t-bars represent firm willpower: If your t-bars are firm all the way through, you are unconsciously stating to others that you have firm, strong willpower.
Do your t-bars move upward on your page of writing? If so, others are ‘picking up’ that you are a positive, optimistic person who just knows that things will work out well.
Do some of your t-bars fly off he tops of your t-stems? If so, this means you are a visionary goal setter who can set long-range goals. When you have a problem, you can cast your mind into the future, see the situation solved in your mind, and, on coming back to the problem in the ‘now’ it doesn’t seem so hard to solve!
As I mentioned in my ‘Welcome Blog’, the magic of handwriting (really brain writing) is that by consciously altering particular letters (a process called Graphotherapy) you are sending different impulses back to your brain and thus altering your personality. This is why it is so important to know what a stroke structure means before you adopt it within your handwriting!
Please e-mail me if you’d like a list of 16 dynamic trait stroke tendencies (in addition to t’s) at hwriting@interlog.com
Monday, May 5, 2008
Callirobics: Handwriting Exercise Program to Music
Do you remember back in school where most of us had to practice circles and loops endlessly in the quiet of the classroom? Do you remember having your pen taken away from you and being told you had to write with a pencil until you got the loops right? Those are my memories of learning cursive writing, and they’re not really ‘yippee skippy’ memories.
In 1991 when I was at a Handwriting convention in the States, I was excited to be part of a presentation by Liora Laufer of Virginia who had developed a Handwriting Exercises program called Callirobics (Calli for ‘caligraphy’ and robics for ‘aerobic’ exercise). These wonderful exercises combine music and graphics of magical graphic formations like cat’s ears, dancing dollies and curly heads that combine with wonderfully upbeat and relaxed music to help children with their fine motor skills, their cursive writing and their confidence. I was so excited by what I saw that I immediately arranged to market and distribute Callirobics in Canada.
Many schools today push the children quite quickly from printing to the computer, not realizing the important brain/mind connections that cursive writing, marshal arts, etc. provide for the children. Handwriting is an important lifelong skill that doesn’t come easily to everyone. To smooth the transition for students, many teachers are using this innovative handwriting exercise program where the children draw patterns of set straight and curved lines while the Callirobics light music plays. Each written exercise has its own music and its own name, and the children learn to recognize what’s coming.
Not only do the children love the exercises, but when the actual letters are introduced as part of the cursive writing program, they can spot the patterns in the letters they learn. Not only do they learn the letters more quickly, but they don’t need a fraction of the remedial work that is usually necessary.
Not only does Callirobics help the children’s concentration, but it lengthens their attention span and boosts their self-esteem. Callirobics eases the way for the children to learn to write easily and with a great deal of fun. The music relaxes the children, gives them a rhythm for their exercises and makes the exercise fun instead of a tedious penmanship chore. It uses all the children’s senses: Those who learn best visually see the exercises and see their work as they do the exercises; those who work best through auditory instead of visual means let the music carry them into and with the exercises. Callirobics makes the children feel their hands are dancing.
Callirobics is excellent for all children, whether learning challenged, average or exceptional. I’ve had so many parents who have children with Downs Syndrome tell me how much their children love the music and how much it has helped them with their writing. Occupational Therapists have found Callirobics helps patients who have experience brain damage from strokes or accidents. They do the exercises on the wall with a flashlight or by moving their hands through the air.
Please e-mail me your address if you’d like a Callirobics information package! (hwriting@interlog.com)
In 1991 when I was at a Handwriting convention in the States, I was excited to be part of a presentation by Liora Laufer of Virginia who had developed a Handwriting Exercises program called Callirobics (Calli for ‘caligraphy’ and robics for ‘aerobic’ exercise). These wonderful exercises combine music and graphics of magical graphic formations like cat’s ears, dancing dollies and curly heads that combine with wonderfully upbeat and relaxed music to help children with their fine motor skills, their cursive writing and their confidence. I was so excited by what I saw that I immediately arranged to market and distribute Callirobics in Canada.
Many schools today push the children quite quickly from printing to the computer, not realizing the important brain/mind connections that cursive writing, marshal arts, etc. provide for the children. Handwriting is an important lifelong skill that doesn’t come easily to everyone. To smooth the transition for students, many teachers are using this innovative handwriting exercise program where the children draw patterns of set straight and curved lines while the Callirobics light music plays. Each written exercise has its own music and its own name, and the children learn to recognize what’s coming.
Not only do the children love the exercises, but when the actual letters are introduced as part of the cursive writing program, they can spot the patterns in the letters they learn. Not only do they learn the letters more quickly, but they don’t need a fraction of the remedial work that is usually necessary.
Not only does Callirobics help the children’s concentration, but it lengthens their attention span and boosts their self-esteem. Callirobics eases the way for the children to learn to write easily and with a great deal of fun. The music relaxes the children, gives them a rhythm for their exercises and makes the exercise fun instead of a tedious penmanship chore. It uses all the children’s senses: Those who learn best visually see the exercises and see their work as they do the exercises; those who work best through auditory instead of visual means let the music carry them into and with the exercises. Callirobics makes the children feel their hands are dancing.
Callirobics is excellent for all children, whether learning challenged, average or exceptional. I’ve had so many parents who have children with Downs Syndrome tell me how much their children love the music and how much it has helped them with their writing. Occupational Therapists have found Callirobics helps patients who have experience brain damage from strokes or accidents. They do the exercises on the wall with a flashlight or by moving their hands through the air.
Please e-mail me your address if you’d like a Callirobics information package! (hwriting@interlog.com)
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