Graphology - Fortune Telling Or Science?

Handwriting is an electrical impulse originating in theFor many hundreds of years society has
brain. The hand (foot or mouth) and the pen arerecognised that the handwritten signature is
its tools. Writing is not an aimless movement. Thesomething unmistakable, unique, personal and
writer has to work out a definite manuscript andindividual. It is required as an acknowledgement of
to overcome all the psychological, physical andthe receipt of goods and money, and is
intellectual difficulties which hinder thisnecessary to validate certain legal agreements. To
accomplishment. Handwriting gives you an accountforge another person's signature is a crime heavily
of how the writer works, plans, arranges andpunished by the criminal law of every country. By
overcomes difficulties. It will also tell yougiving the features of your handwriting such
something of their standard of intelligence,protection, society recognises it as an identification
memory, education, skill, energy, vitality, abilitiesof your individual character and personality. In
and discipline. This information has multiple uses.normal social life it is a common experience for
Neuro-Linguistic programming tests in Americamost of us to recognise the individual handwriting
have shown that the fingertips can transmit brainof friends and relations and to distinguish one
sensations. The 'lie detector' machine belief is thathandwriting from another.
the body reflects with immense sensitivity theExperiments in hypnosis have confirmed that only
psychological forces at work in the mind. Thiswhen the character of the writer undergoes a
claim has already been made during centuries ofreal change does the writing change. When a
graphological observation - that certain patternshypnotised person is asked to assume the
and signs in the writing may be taken to indicatepersonality of another character, their handwriting
definite psychological traits.changes immediately. For example, if a timid
The first detailed work was published in Capri inperson is told under hypnosis that they are a
1622 by Camillo Baldi, who was both Doctor oftyrant, their handwriting will take on the elements
Medicine and Philosophy and Professor ofof what they imagine a tyrant is. The change
Theoretical Medicine at the University of Bologna.springs from their brain and imagination and not
Modern graphology originated in a circle of thefrom their hand.
higher French clergy in the mid-19th century.Over the past 386 years, graphology has evolved
Writers like Shakespeare, Byron, Walter Scott,into an extraordinarily accurate determination of
Browning and Edgar Allan Poe attempted topersonality. However, if you have strongly held
discover the relationship between the handwritingnegative beliefs about it then please give a
and character of a person. When Thomasprofessional graphologist the opportunity to prove
Gainsborough was painting a portrait, he kept athat this is a valid and authentic science and not a
letter written by his model on the easel for insightmethod of fortune telling.
on their personality.