How is your handwriting related to your character?

How is your handwriting related to your character?

Somehow our behavior and appearance is related to our personality and psyche. There is a saying, “class does not come with money”, which means our action reveals our classiness (inner character) no matter how rich we are (let’s think of Paris Hilton). Besides our action, our handwriting can also reveal a chunk of our character, thought and emotional well being.

 

Handwriting analysis, sometimes referred as Graphology, is the study of human character based on handwriting. Our emotion and thought can affect how we write our words, since the stuffs that we want to write are processed from the brain (center) and are affected by them. Through research, experts have found out how our handwriting is correlated to our character. In modern days, handwriting analysis is used by companies to analyze the handwriting of potential employees as hiring procedure, in countries such as France.

 

Together with background check, employers can better understand whether the potential employee can fit in well with the specific working condition and corporate culture, or not. Certain tasks require special character traits, for example an engineer has to be a team player and PR officer has to show great communication ability.

What can we do with handwriting analysis other than predicting people’s character and analyzing job application? I used it to impress my friends, especially girls. Yup, I am that mischievous.

When I was younger, I used to ask my friend to show me their handwriting, and I would analyze it for them and reveal their character. I like to see how they reacted with amazement. It was pretty cool and fun. OK, jokes aside, let us learn how to analyze our handwriting. I doubt that I can cover every thing in one post so I will make a mini lesson on Graphology. Hopefully it is enough to impress your friends, or your favorite girl.

I shall use a sample of my handwriting, which is extracted from my thesis summary, to demonstrate how the magic works.

 

 

1. Spacing

 

Spacing is how we organize the space between two lines of words. My series of spacing is quite even, which shows a good sense of space. Such pattern shows that the writer is neat and well organized and aware of the big picture. Uneven and ugly spacing reflects disorganization. Spacing works only when we analyze handwriting on unlined paper.

 

2. Zones

 

You can see there are two thin red lines dividing my words into three zones: top, middle and bottom. Bottom zone depicts our basic or physical needs. When the bottom zone is dominant and huge (Imagine a long, deep hook of letter “g”), the writer shows a wanting for material satisfaction (car, house etc.). The middle zone is where the writer reveals his perspective on the present moment. Words with dominant middle zone (imagine a big tummy “b”) are from writer who is focusing on his life at present. Top zone shows how a person dreams about his future. A dominant top zone (Imagine the letter “P” with very big head) shows an ambitious person with insight into the future.

My words have a balance of three zones, showing a balance in present life and future ambition.

 

3. Slant

 

Words can be written slanted or vertical. Mine are vertical, as clarified by the red line above. Vertical writing requires conscious control from the writer, or else the vertical strokes will slant aside. It shows a trait of discipline (I put quite some effect to make the letters stand straight up like perfect erection), and a moderate range of emotional expressiveness. A slant towards right (green line) shows that the writer has rich emotional expressiveness and a leftward slant (blue line) reveals that the writer is like “wood”, refraining from being emotionally expressive.

 

4. Shape

 

The font shape above is quite “fluid” and pretty curvy. It exposes that I am an easy going guy. I have a habit of raising my last stroke, which is a sign of high energy. Square handwriting indicates a real world, practical based approach; Squiggles and irregular strokes indicate an artistic and non standard approach.

 

5. Slope

 

In my second paragraph, the words are “ascending” up a slope as outlined by the red lines. Normally, this trait shows that the writer is optimistic and energetic. The descending slope (blue lines) is a trait of lack of energy and pessimism. In my case, this might be slightly misleading since I have a habit of slanting my sitting position while writing (for ergonomic and comfort reason) and that might affect the “slope” of my words. This analysis will only work when it is written on unlined paper.

 

 

After going through this mini lesson, there is something worth pondering. If our character causes us to write in a certain way, can we turn the table around and modify our character traits by changing our handwriting? Or is the cause-and-effect relationship fixed and we cannot do anything about it?

To shed a positive light, we do have Graphotherapy, a way of changing our hand writing to improve our character. We can do handwriting exercises to achieve certain behavior traits. The downside is that we have to put a lot of effort.

Did you feel something is fishy with the lesson above? As if I am trying to show off my “perfect” positive traits through my handwriting? Hahaha… Actually my current handwriting is the style that I have chosen to have, not my original one. It is the product of my hard work. I trained hard to write in a specific way. I write words after words repetitively until I get the right strokes that I have today. If you read my handwriting before I started to learn Graphology, you will see lines of ugly scribbles. I think the effort paid off. What happened to my character, after I changed my writing style?

In the past I was an aggressive rebel who yearned to improve myself in all ways to achieve success in life (I was tired of being a dum dum). Changing my handwriting is one aspect that I can focus on. By improving my handwriting, I find myself more organized and disciplined. The effort paid off well.

Go and learn how to analyze handwriting, or better still, improve your character by changing your handwriting. You might find it useful in your career or in impressing the girl next door. Have fun!

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