Dubai
Did you know your handwriting can not only reveal facets of your personality, but also help you overcome challenges? Well, as a Dubai-based graphologist tells us, handwriting or grapho-therapy has so many beneficial applications, it could actually create a new script for your life.
Sujit Sukumaran, life coach and graphologist, who claims he has transformed the lives of many students and businessmen, including chief executives, said, “Handwriting analysis can help in a variety of situations. Today, it is used by students as a psychometric indicator and by corporates to find out the best job fits and team formations. It is also used for relationship compatibility tests, whether it’s for social or business purposes.”
Basic temperament
He said by just looking at someone’s handwriting, a graphologist can identify the person’s basic temperament, emotional stability, stamina and energy, learning styles, driving forces, inhibiting factors, fears, response to pressure, integrity, social preferences, aptitudes and manual dexterity.
He said the applications of graphology are limitless. “You can discover latent talents - slow thinker or fast-thinker based on the crests and troughs in your m’s and n’s; nurture creativity with round open ‘I’ dots which indicates a creative, visionary and child-like disposition; and boost confidence by stroking the ‘t’s’ higher.” He said grapho-therapy deals with implementing purposeful changes in a person’s handwriting over a space of 41 days, roughly the time it takes to ingrain a particular trait into the system as a whole.
“Take the telltale trait of lying or kleptomaniacal tendencies. “Lying loops” are characterised by shoelace patterns within an “o”, irrespective of whether it is an adult or a child, so be rest assured, there is a pattern of dishonesty there.
If corrected though, it can help the person be truthful again and over time, stay away from such behaviour.”
He said depression and other mental health conditions are characterised by handwriting sloping off the baseline, as if the words are jumping off a cliff or incline.
Sukumaran said just by writing a page a day with necessary changes in handwriting, one can stave off the onset of ailments like dementia and Alzheimer’s. “Of course, handwriting intervention may not work in chronic cases, but it certainly has its uses in overcoming fears, phobias, self-limiting beliefs etc and it works across all ages.”
