Your Handwriting Can Change Your Life!

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Summary: A gentle tool to remove barriers and discover your passion!
Review: Dr. Christiane Northrup, author of "Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom" highly recommended this book in her newsletter (visit Dr. N's website to read her recommendation). I bought "Your Handwriting Can Change Your Life" the very next day. I started out by only changing my "t"s. The book said the letter "t" represents what we do in the world, so I made tall stems and put the crossbars on top with a firm upward stroke each time I wrote them. Within 40 days of practicing this letter, I had a new and better-paying job. And as I immerse myself in the Vimala Alphabet it gets even better . If you're looking for a gentle tool to change your life in the most positive, powerful and electrifying way, this is it!

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Summary: Your Handwriting Can Change Your Life
Review: For me, this book, by far, has been the most informative,
direct and to-the-point on how to change self defeating personality conditions and improve one's personality. This book has helped me identify specific conditions about my personality that were creating stress, reoccurance of relationship problems, depression and the list goes on.
Vilmala Rogers program is helping me make major improvements in my personality and in my life. I am experiencing results faster than I could ever have imagine. I highly recommend this book.

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Summary: Welcome to the vimala alphabet!
Review: Great book if you wish to improve yourself while writing. I love how the way she writes (and now I write) her "e" and "s" and "g". I have already had subtle changes in the way I think and I am only a week into changing my handwriting. The only bad thing of note is that I found her "f"'s were complicated to write and it could have been shown clearer.

Why not write positive affirmations at the same time you change your handwriting for added benefit.

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Summary: Welcome to the vimala alphabet!
Review: Great book if you wish to improve yourself while writing. I love how the way she writes (and now I write) her "e" and "s" and "g". I have already had subtle changes in the way I think and I am only a week into changing my handwriting. The only bad thing of note is that I found her "f"'s were complicated to write and it could have been shown clearer.

Why not write positive affirmations at the same time you change your handwriting for added benefit.

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Summary: Interesting, Useful, and Potentially Life Changing Ideas!
Review: I have been a student of handwriting analyis for about a dozen-odd years. Handwriting analysis-- formally known as Graphology-- is known to many people, and is used worldwide as a psychoanalytical tool to give us insights into someone's personality. There is considerable scientific evidence to suggest that since our hand (and thus writing) moves as a result of electrical impulses from our brains, our handwriting is a very accurate representation of our state of mind, and the way we think and behave. Although still regarded as a "soft science," Graphology is now used extensively in courts, in the crimal justice system, by therapists and by employers.

Graphotherapy takes a "reverse" approach, suggesting that if a certain style of writing is representative of a certain personality trait or characteristic, then by changing our writing style, we must also be able to "reverse engineer" and change certain behavioral traits.

This book is NOT about handwriting analysis-- it is about about how modifying your handwriting can change the way we think, act and react.

The first half of the book provides readers with a general overview of various aspects of handwriting, and their meaning. In this section we are also introduced to the "Vimala Alphabet," which is the author's interpretation of "ideal" handwriting-- digitized into a computer font, but not difficult to reproduce with pen and ink.

The second half of the book walks us through the letters of the alphabet, one by one, explaining the corresponding personality traits, thoughts or habits associated with both the uppercase and lowercase version of each letter. Along with the recommendations on how to shape each letter, Rodgers also shows us a number of ways NOT to write certain letters, since they have negative connotations. At the end of the book, there is a brief chapter suggesting how to undertake daily exersises to help permanently change your handwriting over time.

The one (fairly minor) reservation I have with this otherwise noteworthy and useful book concerns the author's "Vimala Alphabet." I feel that it is based rather heavily on the assumption that everyone wants the SAME traits, and interpret the SAME traits as "what they should strive for" in life. Other works on graphotherapy put more effort into explaining the psychological implications of DIFFERENT ways of writing each letter, while Ms. Rodgers' book simply suggests that the Vimala Alphabet is "the answer"-- and the justifications for adopting it are a bit vague and not well explained. Whereas most recomendations are sound-- from a graphological standpoint-- there is a definite emphasis towards "extreme positive," rather than a more "balanced person" approach. This is the only reason the book doesn't quite merit a 5-star rating.

Final thoughts: Recommended (8.5 out of 10 possible bookmarks). As a therapeutic tool for self-improvement, graphotherapy provides an easy and inexpensive way to get a lot of value for your money, and Rodgers does a thorough and understandable job.

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Summary: Thank You Vimala!
Review: I purchased this book 2 days ago, and my life and my handwriting has changed! I was an illegible printer,and in two days I am writing and don't ask me how my spelling has improved! Can you imagine after 40 days of daily practice. I also have more energy and I am going around the house finishing a bunch of unfinished projects. Oh this is fun! This book will change your life!

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Summary: Powerful tool which is easy to use!
Review: I was actually looking for books on handwriting analysis when I came across this book, and I'm so glad I did. Using the information presented in this book has helped me improve my life immensely. I'll never go back to writing the way I used to. When you write using Vimala's alphabet, you'll feel the difference. I've attended a couple of Vimala's seminars (and will attend more) and I've discovered that not only do I love her books but I love her as a person as well. She has a powerful vision which I hope you'll decide to share. Let's make the world a better place!

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Summary: This Book is Unique
Review: If you're a student of graphology and have found most books on the subject as interesting as dry toast, this book is for you. Whereas most books on handwriting analysis just rehash the same information found in other books; this one gives you information not found anywhere else. This is due to Vimala's many years of personal study and unique research into the subject. This book is not only entertaining and fun it will definitely change your life.

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Summary: Powerful technology for every day , life-long use
Review: Implementing Vimala Rodgers's handwriting changes from 'Your Handwriting Can Change Your Life!' is the most powerful tool that I know for self-improvement. Using handwriting changes is an accelerator for anything I've done since using the Vimala alphabet, from getting my nerve up to change careers, improving my eyesight naturally, raising my goals and improving personal relationships. Currently, I'm practicing the Epsilon e and r and the figure 8 g to aid me in creating my own book.

This book is straightforward, non-threatening, lively and thorough. It covers the components of handwriting, has easy-to-follow instructions for each letter and most importantly to me, explains the personal application of each letter.

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Summary: For Anyone Who Is Focused on Personal Growth
Review: Not only have I read this book and her previous book, Change Your Handwriting, Change Your Life, I have studied under her since 1995. She is as giving, intuitive, passionate, and honest about her work as she comes across in her books.

Many studies have validated that handwriting is brain writing. Therefore, by making healthy handwriting changes, these changes will be displayed through one's personality. Vimala, however, is the only person I know who has actually developed healthy writing strokes that focuses on building character and making personal transformations.