What I Look for in an Informal Handwriting Sample

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In my previous blog titled Stepping Up to the Plate, I described how I gave an impromptu presentation about handwriting analysis for my Network Referral Group partners during our weekly lunch meeting. In today’s blog, I will share the list of basic criteria I examine when I do basic handwriting analyses at fund-raiser events and during hypnotherapy sessions.

This list does not include the hundreds of other individual characteristics that I also study when I do a formal handwriting analysis for clients or as part of an employment-screening process.

•          Handwriting is an ideomotor (automatic, subconscious physical) response of the subconscious mind that reflects the behavioral and personality traits of the author.

•          You cannot tell sex/sexual orientation, age, handedness or future of the writer by his or her handwriting.        

•          I use handwriting to indicate personality traits and behavior tendencies that may be addressed during hypnotherapy.

•          Handwriting reflects the mood of the writer at the time the sample is written. I analyze handwriting in that context.

•          Handwriting may indicate health issues. For example, I saw evidence of one of my former boss’s appendicitis in his writing in the form of a tiny gap in the lower right quadrant of the oval letters in his writing. After the appendix was removed, this gap disappeared.

Note: I am less interested in the content of what you write than the shape, etc. of the letters in the sample. Here are some basic handwriting characteristics I look for:

·       Straightness/waviness of the base-line;

·       Left, right, upright slant of the letters;

·       Presence and size of left, right, top and bottom page margins;

·       Shape of the m and n indicates the writer’s Suggestibility;

·       Presence of an end-stroke passing through the baseline on the y and g (at the end of a word) indicates the writer’s Sexual Personality;

·       Entanglement of letters/beginning and ending strokes between lines of writing

·       Space (or lack of) between letters in a word, between words and between lines of text;

·    Similarity/difference between the writing in the body of the sample and the person’s signature;

·      Pressure of the writing on the page and even the choice of writing implement used;

·      Form of oval letters/roundedness of letters, which indicates suggestibility about specific issues (e.g., body image, self-esteem);

·       Connecting strokes.

For more information about handwriting analysis, check out the following blogs: Handwriting Analysis for Hypnotherapy; And Your Handwriting Says; And Your Handwriting Says, Part 2; Handwriting Analysis: Doodles; and When Illness Shows Up in Your Handwriting. If you are interested in getting a formal analysis of your own handwriting, please contact me at (661) 433-9430 or send an e-mail to me at calminsensehypnosis@yahoo.com.

Sara R. Fogan, C.Ht. is a certified hypnotherapist based in Southern California. She graduated with honors from the Hypnosis Motivation Institute in 2005. For more information about Calminsense Hypnotherapy® and to set up an appointment, please visit http://www.calminsensehypnotherapy.com/.

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