Focusing on the analysis of handwriting

Focusing on the analysis of handwriting

By Lim Tri Santosa

BANDUNG (JP): They say a picture is worth a thousand words.
But sometimes a single word is worth a thousand pictures.
Handwriting is as unique as a fingerprint, and characteristics
within the way words and letters are formed can often say more
about the person than the words themselves. That's according to
handwriting analysts, or graphologists, who say they can assess
our personality from a few scrawls.

While not a graphologist, I know that handwriting analysis has
good uses and deserves more attention. The technique, which has
been around hundreds of years and is a common practice in Europe,
is becoming increasingly popular among American employers for
screening potential new hires.

Graphologists claim that handwriting displays every aspect of
the personality, including factors such as integrity, creativity,
secretiveness and stability.

But how does the way we cross our "t"s and dot our "i"s reveal
our inner souls? The science of handwriting is based on the fact
that everything we do with our hand comes from our brain.
Beginning in the brain, the writing impulse travels through the
nerves, into the hand holding the pen, and flows out through the
ink trail on paper. An accumulation of thousands of visual and
auditory experiences, handwriting reveals how you have integrated
all that you have seen and heard throughout your lifetime.

Handwriting can provide an accurate picture of the core
personality of the writer in general. Sometimes it is also
possible to obtain some remarkably specific insight from
handwriting. It is an excellent employment-profiling tool because
it is completely nondiscriminatory. That's why some U.S.
companies, including Xerox, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Citibank and
Hewlett-Packard have reportedly used the technique. The
graphologist cannot tell age, sex, race, religion or which hand
the writer uses.

It's an investigation that is totally legal. Your writing is
no more private than the expression on your face. Do you want to
learn more about handwriting analysis? There is one good web site
which provides a free handwriting analysis service. Hit your
browser at www.quantumenterprises.co.uk/handwriting/. Here is
your chance to take part in an online interactive handwriting
analysis and receive a free handwriting analysis report.

You will be provided detailed instructions on how to create
the best handwriting sample. You will then be taken through a
series of questions about the sample you created with
illustrations and examples to guide you. When the answers to the
questions have been received, the results will be transferred to
the Graphonomizer (tm) computer program, which will use the
scores to compile a written personality profile.

The important thing is that the sample be written as normally
as possible, with the subject calm and relaxed and the paper
resting on a smooth surface. It took me about one and a half
hours to answer 61 mandatory questions concerning my writing
style. If your Internet connection drops while you are answering
the questions, better to complete all of the questions first then
reconnect to the Internet to click on the submit button.

If you have any doubts about a question or answer, it is best
to give a neutral reply indicating that the characteristic is not
shown. You may want to analyze the handwriting of a friend, your
husband or wife, brother or sister, even a potential lover. The
subject writer should be at least 16 years old, as there is no
provision in the program for analyzing children's handwriting. By
the way, if you are interested in examining Monica Lewinsky's
handwriting, you can get her handwriting sample at
www.writinganalysis.com/lewinsky.gif.

The free analysis report consists of a chart showing the
scores for the eight personality traits of the writer subject.
The personality chart description of the subject will only
indicate those characteristics revealed by the handwriting. If a
handwriting characteristic is present, it is very likely that the
personality description will be accurate in most respects.

However, if a personality trait is not shown within the
handwriting, it cannot be guaranteed that the person will not
actually show the trait.

Handwriting reveals your potential, but it cannot foretell the
future. Whether you fulfill your potential or not is entirely up
to you. The method is only a prediction of potential not a
declaration. We can't know if someone is going to act on his or
her potential. Handwriting analysis may be helpful and
insightful, but it is no crystal ball into the future. But one
thing I am sure of... even though your "letters" handwriting
sometimes "unreadable", your "numbers" handwriting is always
"digitally crystal clear" especially for money matters.