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January/February 2007 Living Now
Your Handwriting Can Change Your Life

by Vimala Rodgers

Vimala Rodgers

When we write, each movement of the pen not only reflects the attitudes we have about ourselves, it reinforces them.

Each time we press the pen to the paper to create a letter formation, connect letters, or shape a margin, we are declaring, "This is who I am." The more often we write in a specific manner, the more deeply that attitude is ingrained in our psyche.

Graphotherapy is the behavioral science that invites the writer to take pen in hand and change self-defeating aspects of the personality by altering specific strokes in the handwriting.

Since each stroke of the pen reaffirms a thinking habit, and each thinking habit shapes our self-image, and self-image is the lens through which we see life, and this lens determines our behavior ... if an alphabet were designed that exhibited only the most noble human traits, world peace might be a possibility.

Like any living organism, each letter contains a unique and powerful energy. Although there is no right or wrong way to make a letter, there is a way to shape letters that allows you to reconnect with a deep place within and to express that unique relationship outwardly.

Each alphabet family reflects our human pattern of growth and awakening, our emergence from infancy through maturity into wisdom.

Communication

A: stardom
O: verbal communication
D: sensitivity
G: prosperity
Q: selfless service
P: self-lovability

Learning and Evaluating

Y: self-acknowledgement
U: openmindedness
W: teacher
V: discernment

Honoring and Expressing

M: divine grace
N: friendship
H: dynamic self-expression

Insight

L: innate spirituality
E: tolerance
I: clear perception
J: intuition

Applied Creativity

F: using one's talents in service to others
R: innate creativity
S: balance

Status

T: status
Th: flexibility
K: handling authority
B: spirit-centered business

Trusting and Inner Authority

C: complete trust
X: inner authority

Z Alone

Z: perfect contentment

By making handwriting changes consciously and purposefully, you will be removing handwriting strokes that indicate your own negative judgments and replacing them with those that allow you to move freely in life, creating access to your own unique life purpose.

Vimala Rodgers, author of Your Handwriting Can Change Your Life, is director of the Institute of Integral Handwriting Studies. Her passion in life is to guide people from the age of three to 103 in adopting handwriting patterns that bring out the very best in themselves. Rodgers presents a handwriting workshop on Jan. 26-27 at New Renaissance Bookshop in Portland and Feb. 23-24 at East West Bookshop in Seattle. Visit www.iihs.com.