HOW DOES HANDWRITING REFLECT PERSONALITY?
The act of writing is a complex series of actions involving the writer’s nervous system, physical state, emotions, and disposition. When we pick up a pen or pencil to write, the brain sends messages to the hand and arm muscles, directing the marks left on paper. The lines, curves, loops, and dots that result are all graphic indications of the inner self, a record of the psychomotor impulses of the writer. Although the writing instrument is held in the hand (or sometimes in the mouth, foot, the crook of the arm, etc.) it is the brain which impels us to write. Handwriting is brainwriting. Like facial expressions, bodily movements and other individualized mannerisms, handwriting reflects the thoughts, feelings and habits present at the moment the writer places pen to paper. BUT MY WRITING CHANGES FROM ONE DAY TO THE NEXT… Your writing changes from day to day because you are a living being with variable thoughts, moods, and physical states and because writing is highly sensitive to these
