[img]560|left|Nicholas D. Pollak||no_popup[/img]In a restaurant the other night, our waiter appeared to be a intense but self-assured young man. I placed my order and offered to do a quick handwriting analysis of his personality. He was not that busy, and he admitted he would like to see what I came up with although he was skeptical.

Handwriting analysis is a reliable tool for determining a person’s personality.

Our waiter compared the analysis to palmistry or astrology. I explained this was inaccurate. Through scientific research, it has been proven almost 200 character traits are visible in a person’s handwriting.

The FBI sponsors handwriting analysis classes. They have found handwriting samples useful in profiling suspects to gain character insight. Handwriting analysis is especially employed in proving forgery cases.

There are two primary areas of study in handwriting:

• The body of the written text will show the true nature of the individual,

• And one’s signature shows how a person wishes to be seen by the world.

Signing Off

After many analyses, it is remarkable how different a person’s signature can be compared to the main body of his or her writing. Many persons want to be seen as something they are not.

At the restaurant, after analyzing the waiter’s handwriting, he said I was only 20 percent correct. Not true, I knew. Having conducted analyses for 20 years, rarely, if ever, am I wrong.

Discussing his behaviors and suggestibility, he began to see he had been hasty. Several questions later, he acknowledged I had been right. He had been denying the traits I had detected.

With handwriting I can see if a person is open or closed to new ideas. What is his behavior? Is he self critical or critical of others? What is his level of self-confidence? Honest or not? Optimistic or pessimistic?

At a party recently with four women, I offered to analyze their writing. All were excited. One said since I would know who was doing the writing, I could also assess the person’s dress and manner of speaking.

This reminded me of the same skepticism a friend displayed years ago. I asked for a sample of writing from someone I could not possibly know and I would tell him what I saw. Since he was the only one who knew the person, he would know whether what I was saying was accurate or not.

His Wretchedness Showed Through

When I saw the sample, I became concerned. I could see the individual was in poor health, extremely unhappy and depressed. He needed immediate psychological and medical assistance.

My friend’s jaw dropped. The man suffered from diabetes, he said, a severe heart condition, that he was going through a terribly hard divorce and he could not even see his children. He was so depressed he had committed suicide two days earlier.

As for the women at the party, I told them to do their writing while I was getting a drink.

Later, each person was stunned by the accuracy of my analysis.

Handwriting is stored in our subconscious. We always think about what we are writing but not how we are writing. We learned to write and the subconscious simply allows us to form the writing so that we can write what our conscious minds want to write. Like tying shoelaces. We had to learn how to do it and concentrate each time, but, after a while we no longer think about how to, we simply just do.

So it is with handwriting. Once our character is formed, it is undeniably shown in handwriting.

If a person is made aware of a specific characteristic shown in a drawing a certain letter, he can alter that trait by consciously changing how he writes the letter.

Still not convinced? Make an appointment so I may prove what I have shown to others.

A clinical hypnotherapist, handwriting analyst and expert master hypnotist, Nicholas Pollak may be contacted at nickpollak@hypnotherapy4you.net