From then on, more and more respected philosophers, psychologists and scientists studied handwriting analysis, being curious about personality revealed through handwriting, and wanting to dig deeply and open the veil of its mystery.

Through the power of pursuing knowledge and exploring from multiple directions, handwriting analysis developed toward a more mature status. In the first half of the 20th century, Milton Bunker established the American Grapho-analysis Society in the United States. Much of the way handwriting analysis is now understood and taught has been profoundly influenced by Bunker's way of teaching the subject.

In addition, research has continued, mostly in Europe, establishing the statistical validity of the correlation between strokes in handwriting and traits of personality.

Within the last decade, the Grapho-Analytics Institute of Handwriting Analysis, established by Mr. Bart Baggett, has become one of the best known and most well respected schools of handwriting analysis in the United States.

Mr. Baggett also has credentials in Neuro-Linguistic Programming and hypnosis, and has pioneered the integration of these approaches to understanding the human mind with the study of handwriting. In the late 1980s he invented the Grapho-deck, probably the easiest way to quickly learn and begin using handwriting analysis in daily life.

Chou Wen-chuan

When I, first approached Mr. Baggett with the idea of establishing a branch of his institute in Taiwan, he responded with enthusiasm. Every step of this project has proceeded with his guidance, and now the history of handwriting analysis is entering a new stage. As you now learn and apply this science and art you, too, are becoming an important new part of this history.

The Relationship Between Handwriting and Personality

According to European research, the relationship between the formation of letters and the neurology of the brain is very exact. Any stroke, whether dot, hook, line, curve, or loop, is directed by neural impulses governed by the conscious or the unconscious mind.

From these strokes we can see quickly a person's thinking patterns, learning ability, manner of expressing feelings, low or high self-confidence, fears, attitudes and abilities in communicating with others, ability to set goals, and attitude to carry out the goals - the list could go on.

It has been estimated that there are between 100 and 120 basic personality traits that can be reliably deduced from handwriting, yet these basic elements of personality cannot be seen in isolation. According to the research the relationships between these elements of personality can wax and wane, interacting in an interplay of mutual production and destruction. Therefore the basic 100 to 120 traits can multiply into a vast array of evaluated traits sufficient to describe the complexity of human behavior and personality.

An American statistician has pointed out that the odds of two people having identical handwriting are 68,000,000,000,000 to one. In a world of only 6 billion people it is extremely unlikely that any two people will ever have exactly the same handwriting, or the same personality.

Even so, handwriting analysis is more than capable of dealing with the complexity and uniqueness of any person who is able to write the Western European type of cursive handwriting.

Handwriting is brain writing, and the personality revealed by the handwriting remains constant no matter what part of the body is used to write. Even if disease, violence, or accident results in losing use of the hands so that the person has to use their mouth or foot to write, the handwriting remains constant enough to still reveal the personality through the same traits that are written by the hand.

Some things cannot be reliably deduced from handwriting.  Age, gender, nationality, and racial background are not revealed in handwriting. Some people think that they can tell whether a handwriting sample was written by a man or a woman, but when put to the test these assertions invariably fail.

Applications

In the West, handwriting analysis is generally used in three ways:
1) Analyzing the personality of the writer, 
2) Changing neural patterns, and
3) Questioned document examination. 
The latter is generally considered a distinct field.

Acceptance of handwriting analysis in the United States has been increasing for the last 50 years. It's accuracy is always amazing. It is not only used in law enforcement, it is being used increasingly as a psychological projective test. After learning handwriting analysis we are able to know in greater depth and breadth our mental activities and the traits of our personalities.

Many examples show us that the one who can master their own destiny is the one who knows and uses their mental power. Bill Gates, in his recent book "Business at the Speed of Thought," points out that in the next decade the emphasis will be on speed.

In other words, the ones who can grasp the first opportunity in a very short time are the ones who will enjoy success the most quickly.

So, how to smell the first opportunity? And then, how do you grasp it? The answers to these questions lay in the potential for change in the human mind. The more effectively you can reprogram your neural processing, the better prepared you will be to take advantage of the opportunities all around you.

Grapho-therapy offers an amazingly effective process to reprogram your mind by repatterning your neurology. 

After learning handwriting analysis we not only know ourselves, at the same time it helps us to know other people.

For instance, when teachers understand students' individual learning patterns, they are then better prepared to teach according to each student's learning ability, and to remove confusion, and so guide them to their fullest potential. 

The same principle can apply to hiring the director of a company. If they know the qualifications required for a position, they can better evaluate prospective employees by analyzing their handwriting.

There is a Chinese saying: "A man is afraid of getting into the wrong career. A woman is afraid of marrying the wrong man." Is it possible to detect potentially destructive personality traits in a potential partner before getting involved? For example, violent tendencies, bizarre sexual appetites, habitual deceit, jealousy, dual personality, and so on?

And is it possible to detect any clue to incompatibility before finding out after getting emotionally involved with each other? The answer to both questions is, "Yes." In a situation that one may want to make romantic, how do you impress that potential partner favorably? Understanding their needs and emotions is essential, and these can be detected instantly by analyzing a sample of their handwriting.

The authors are both professional personal consultants.  In order to rapidly detect clients' mental bottlenecks we use the skill of handwriting analysis. Its accuracy always puts a finger on the clients' greatest disturbances in an amazing way.

The analysis of personality through handwriting is the result of scientific research. It cannot predict the future or tell us what has happened in the past.

In other words, it is not fortunetelling. It can however, detect the potential for success within our personalities. With the guidance of a handwriting analyst trained in grapho-therapy, we can change the unconscious mental behaviors that hinder success, happiness, and confidence.

In school we were taught to write in ways that required modeling our writing styles on the writing of some dead people from long ago. In American schools, this involved adhering to a style of writing known as the Palmer System.

In Taiwanese schools it involved imitating the brushstrokes of the examples provided. In Taiwan, practicing these brushstrokes was taught as a way of cultivating ourselves.

Chou Wen-chuan

After learning handwriting analysis I, was surprised at the wisdom of the elders who promoted this method of self-cultivation. At the same time I was concerned about their criteria for choosing the models, because we don't know the personalities of the original writers.

What personality traits could we have been installing in ourselves without being aware of it? It seems that how children are taught to write both reflects and forms societal character.

For example, throughout the first half of the 20th century, German children were taught to write with very tall and sharp humps on their m's and n's. This is related to a very rapid style of thinking, one which includes tremendous curiosity. Is it any coincidence that this country then produced many of the greatest physical scientists of this century?

When schools begin incorporating the fruits of grapho-analytical therapy into their teaching methods and models, it will produce a revolution in education the likes of which has rarely been seen before. 

Written by Chou Wen-chuan & Dennis Rudolph
(Copyright 1999 by Chou Wen-chuan & Dennis Rudolph)

Hi Bart,

I wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed the seminar in DC. I'm glad I got to speak with you.  Your book on success really struck a chord with me.  I began thinking of things best forgotten when I saw a big  eraser rubbing them out of my past. Your visualization  techniques really work. I can't begin to tell you all the doors that are opening to me with Handwriting Analysis.  Thanks again.
Patsy Provost, Certified Handwriting Expert, Florida

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