graphotherapy

There are many types of therapy that would be appropriate for me, dear reader, but this September I am embarking on the great graphotherapy project.

Graphotherapy, 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. Graphotherapists are trained in graphology and have additional training in psychology. Their expertise is to guide the client in altering handwriting patterns as a means of removing negative thought habits and replacing them with positive, self-supportive ones. By changing writing patterns we simultaneously reconfigure the neuropathways in the brain that record our self-image.

I write in the kind of printing we all learned in elementary school. Uppercase letters occur at the beginning of sentences and in other appropriate places; there are also lowercase letters. This is called upper-and lowercase printing. u &lc for short. My writing looks very much like the lines you are reading. Guess what the graphotherapist has to say about this, "Printing is a shield usually put in place by a sensitive soul who has been betrayed in one way or another and isn't about to let that happen again. Printing keeps people at a distance by creating a boundary. The u&lc printer has erected a wire fence around himself... If you want to tap into your creativity in a big way, begin now and again to connect a letter or two within your words." *

What about you? Are you a dedicated pencil user, or do you prefer a felt-tip pen? Does your writing slant back, vertical, or forward? Do you have zonal balance? Angles and curves? Or are you a printer like me?

*Your handwriting can change your life by Vimala Rodgers

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