Handwriting Changes After Session

Handwriting Changes After Session

I recently worked on a doctor of internal medicine. He came to me for a session, saying he is a healthy skeptic but was sufficiently intrigued by what I do. At the end of the first session, I asked him how he felt and if he noticed any differences. He said he felt fine but didn’t experience anything appreciably noteworthy. The next day he called me. He said, “I’ve got to tell you what happened. In terms of my feelings and what I notice about how I operate [no pun intended], I feel about the same. However, there was a dramatic change in my handwriting. I frequently do crossword puzzles, and, as you can imagine, I have the typical doctors handwriting – it looks like chicken scratches. Today, my handwring looks like it is out of a typewriter.” That’s dramatic. What does this mean? Many people subscribe to the efficacy or the diagnostic validity of graphology. There have been numerous studies indicating that if you change your handwriting, it also affects your personality (see the book Change Your Handwriting – Change Your Life, and others). Obviously, there was some kind of profound change in this doctor, as reflected in his...