this was the first graphology video that i uploaded on my channel a little less than a
year ago and since then i've learned a lot about graphology yeah i know much more i want to redo
that video let's do a factory reset making a very condensed video that can serve as a jumping off
point for anyone new to handwriting analysis as well as a reference point for my more experienced
viewers i'll have my full list of disclaimers in the description all you really need to know
is graphology is very very controversial it has been for hundreds of years but it's also
been around for hundreds of years message to the haters just watch a different video there are so
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hi my name is leah okay so what is handwriting analysis put simply handwriting analysis
is a way to infer different things about a writer based on the way they write it's based in science
it's not based in astrology or make-believe or whatever it often picks up on what's going
on in a writer's subconscious mind as well as picking up on things using deductions as well
these inferences include but are not limited to a writer's physical or physiological state a
writer's mental or emotional state and a writer's personality traits the main difference in telling
these apart is realizing that personality is what stays the same while your mental
and physical state and change based on when the sample was written but i'll start with going over
all the personality traits you can infer about a writer because it's the bulkiest category of
the three so when you look at a person's writing you'll find they write differently all the time
depending on the context of the situation they're writing for you'll also find variations in the
writing based on the writer's mental and emotional state but even with all these variations you'll
see when you look at multiple samples from the same writer there will be things that stay the
same these aspects that stay the same are what we use to make inferences on a writer's personality
just keep in mind that the traits that i'm talking about are all just indicators they're not facts
what i mean by that is say there's a trait that indicates depression you have depression but
you don't have that trait don't worry it doesn't mean you don't have depression there are multiple
different indicators of depression in handwriting if you don't have one of them you may have others
etc that's why i always say handwriting analysis describes what the writing would indicate
it doesn't necessarily describe the writer sound good okay sufficient disclaimers okay let's let's
list out all the traits size in writing tells you how much space a writer is comfortable taking up
in a room if it's not for the exception of writing large so it's easier to read or easier to write
large writing often indicates someone with a large potentially overwhelming personality they
want attention on themselves and their actions and this can be for better like just being generally
social or charismatic or for worse like being prone to overstepping boundaries or just being
an overbearing person to be around on the flip side someone who writes small is often humble
values precision and does not feel the same need as people with large writing to take up space in
a room especially in social situations however if the writing is small to the extreme this
would actually indicate someone who doesn't think they deserve to take up space indicates feelings
of unworthiness depression unhappiness etc and actually a common trait for people who struggle
with anorexic tendencies is writing that gets progressively smaller and smaller and smaller
and smaller specifically throughout time not just in a sentence so if you notice if a friend
usually writes big but their writing has become smaller and smaller and smaller just try to watch
out for this trade and support those around you you see with this trait because it has a pretty
high accuracy rate so yeah i thought i'd cheer next i'm going to talk about baseline baseline
is the imaginary line that exists underneath the writing often the straighter the bass line the
more emotionally grounded the writer the wavier the bass line the more emotionally ungrounded the
writer however if a bass line is rigidly straight like you can line it up with a ruler instead of
emotional groundedness it indicates perfectionism and uptightness and someone who is just really
really trying to make everything perfect they're just like it just creates a lot of tension be so
uptight that they'll lash out when they're upset or something doesn't go their way or they're drunk
or whatever so oftentimes i find people who write extremely extremely extremely neat beyond ordinary
meat it's often a conscious or unconscious coping mechanism to feel like they have some sense of
control so yeah take that how you will gently wavy bass lines it's normal it's a sign of growing up
it's a sign of it it's normal not to have not to be 100 on top of your emotions all the time but
yeah straighter the bass line more emotionally grounded the person in addition to waviness you
can also tell things about a writer based on the incline rising bass lines indicate positivity and
optimism but severely rising baselines actually indicates ungroundedness and and not being in
touch with reality on the flip side baselines that decline are an indicator of depression and
pessimism but look out for crashing baselines they have this really unique pattern to them where the
writing is trying to write they're trying to write and then they just give up this is a big
indicator of s*icidality in a writer again try not to scare anyone with this trait but reaching out
being there being supportive never hurts i usually reach out because i think it's better to be safe
than sorry often what'll happen is the writer will laugh at you and make fun of you for even
suggesting it but at least what happens to me when i when i reach out to someone if they have
s*icidal or otherwise concerning traits in their writing they'll make fun of me initially but then
like a month or two later they'll be like oh yeah leah that was that was true you were right so
that's just my experience next i'm going to talk about writing styles garland writing
has this round's looping pattern to it where the letters connect with like these downward arcing
sort of patterns it indicates friendliness compatibility being like a team player type
person arcaded writing has this pattern and it seems similar so it looks similar to garland
writing but it's actually harder for the hand to accomplish this so oftentimes arcaded writing
will look pretty but it's a compensation for what's really going on underneath the surface it's
kind of like all a facade if this writer seems like they're fun and they're doing great it might
just be on the surface level threaded writing is like very fast it literally looks like a thread
so it's a really fast slightly more illegible way to write so writers like this are often
very intelligent very fast thinking however they have a hard time communicating that intelligence
they have a harder time expressing their ideas to others in a way that others can understand it can
also indicate unhappiness illegible writing often indicates unhappiness because it's like you don't
care if other people understand you you don't care if you can read it you don't care about yourself
you don't care about your writing generally the more eligible the writing the more unhappy
the writer there are different exceptions to this too like like learning disabilities change a lot
of these traits i'll write my disclaimer below but in general illegible writing is often a sign
of unhappiness angular writing i can't even do it it's like characterized by sharp angles like
donald trump writes like this he's just the first person that comes to mind that has writing like
this it's a very tense aggressive way to write it takes a lot of muscular attention to go in one
direction and switch directions and go the other direction it takes a lot of physical muscular
tension so similarly people who write like this are often very tense emotionally rigid people who
can be potentially aggressive and temperamental as well print writing or disconnected writing is
a slower more cautious way to write it's where the pen lifts in between every single letter writers
that don't use connecting strokes or write like this they're often less socially adept
as other writers it's a slower way to write so it indicates caution but disconnected writers are
often logically thinking as well i mean it's also important to keep in mind between connected and
disconnected styles is younger generations younger people in general write in print especially like
people from my generation because for people from older generations writing was a more integral
part of their lives often times older generations will have these very efficient cursive handwriting
styles while people from my generation don't really have that partially because a lot of us
weren't talk cursive partially because we don't write as much we type a lot so sometimes writing
disconnectedly is just a sign of age although in general you can't tell age in writing but hope
that made sense next we're going to go over pressure the heavier the pressure the more
intense and head stronger the writer generally heavy pressure indicates someone who's dynamic
charismatic energetic social a bit overbearing but if it's pressure that is heavy to the extreme
like t-bars are ripping the page or crossing outwards or ripping the page then it's less of
a sign of charisma and dynamicness and more of a sign of just frustration being temperamental being
overbearing etc and potentially violence as well light pressure indicates someone who's a bit more
passive has a softer approach to handling conflict than someone with firm or heavy pressure but if
the pressure is so light that it's lifting off the page i'm not doing this right at all this is
like an exaggeration but if it's if it's pressure that is so light that it's lifting off the page
it indicates anxiety like you're so nervous you can't even keep the pen on the page if it's not
like lifting if it's just uneven pressure often that's a sign of health problems or not being
sober next telling aspect i'm going to talk about a lot of spatial concepts space between
words tells you how close or far a writer likes to keep to other people someone whose words
are close together indicate someone who likes being around people likes to keep people close
someone who keeps them far is a person who likes to keep their distance more if they're
really far it can be an indicator of paranoia or fear of others if words are so close though that
they're impacting legibility this often means like this writer keeps so close to others that their
relationships are actually hurting them more than they're helping them yeah space between
words facing between lines is a similar concept as well if lines are super far apart it can indicate
fear of others paranoia or just being cautious in general but lines that are so close that
they tangle like this tangling tangling happening there's a little different it actually indicates
confusion of thought also disorganization again if you have a learning disability
it's slightly different but in general um also the narrowness of your letters it indicates how
uptight a person is so like even if you try to write at home if you try to write your letters
very very narrow you're going to feel more uptight rather than if you just relax and let your letters
breathe so yeah it indicates someone who's a more uptight writer last thing in the personality
traits that i'm going to talk about is zones those are a huge part of handwriting analysis first zone
represents thinking future planning morality how you think etc a lot of psych majors have big
upper zones people who just enjoy philosophical discussion people who are visionaries future
planners they've got big aspirations they probably have more upper zone dominant writing now second
zone is the middle zone everything that happens here it makes up the bulk of people's writing
second zone is all about communication your social life lots of students have very dominant middle
zones third zone is like your survival needs like sex money power etc most of the time the third
zone represents your relationship to sex but often it's your relationship to pleasure in general so
i know awkward awkward no one likes talking about sex but whatever it's a huge part of handwriting
analysis i always find it kind of hard to explain the zones but sometimes this diagram is helpful
first zone thinking etc second zone communication daily life third zone sex pleasure etc also some
graphologists like to think of it in terms of superego ego id some people like to think of it as
past present future whatever helps you remember it however you think of the zones it's just helpful
in pinpointing how a writer is doing in that aspect of their life so if you have super middle
zone dominant writing super compressed upper zones super compressed lower zones it indicates someone
who's stuck in their daily life they don't have time to think about the future they don't have
time to to satisfy their their pleasure or whatever so they're just very much stuck in
their day-to-day existence or if you have writing that is upper zone to the extreme have compressed
middle and lower zones it means your head's in the clouds you're having a hard time connecting
your dream life to your reality or and this is where it can get specific let's say you have
writing that's just illegible in the middle zone nowhere else so that would indicate communication
problem or or let's say you have like hooks or angular formations in the upper zone it means
you've got some aggressive thinking patterns some aggressive morals this applies to any zone angular
forms in the lower zone sexual frustration social frustration thinking frustration or let's say
you have a lot of variation happen try to pinpoint which zone it's mainly occurring in
is it mainly occurring in the middle zone then you're probably really socially unpredictable
is it really only occurring in the upper zone your morality is probably un unpredictable variation in
the lower zones then your sex life is probably unpredictable so that was personality traits
that was those huge chapter but next let's talk about physical traits so when i mean
a writer's physical state what does that encompass you can't determine race
sex orientation you can't tell that in handwriting but what i mean by physical state is more along
the lines of how the writer's body is affected then the entirety of the writing is going to be
changed so like if you are on drugs or alcohol your entire writing is going to change or if you
have like a tremor or some other illness that affects muscle coordination the entirety of the
writing is going to be affected versus if it's a mental or emotional change it's just going to
happen in those emotional sentences and i talked about age for the most part you cannot tell age
when looking at someone's handwriting that's not what i mean by physical state but i mean
using what you know about what different generations handwritings sometimes you can tell
so that's sort of physical state in a nutshell let's talk about emotional mental state what i
mean by telling a writer's mental state what i really mean is telling what a writer feels again
personality traits stay consistent mental changes those shift so when looking at writing and you're
trying to make inferences on a writer's mental state look at what changes and this can be any
sort of change from slant pressure size baseline anything and then you make your inference from
there using what you learned in the personality trait section of this video to understand how the
writer is changing oh i wrote school incorrectly so like for example slant if your slant is
normally up and down and then it changes and goes forward this indicates a writer feels more
emotionally forward about whatever they're writing about this can be anything this can be a person
this can be a place this can be whatever it means the writer feels excited about whatever they were
writing about where the slant change if the slant changes and goes back slant changes it goes back
means they feel nervous about whatever they were writing about so when looking at someone's writing
and you see a change you can be like oh they have some anxiety about this specific thing here also
baseline this is my cat's name as you can see i'm writing her name on this upward angle so
you can tell based on how someone writes your name or how someone writes someone else's name
if they're feeling optimistic or pessimistic size gives you insight too if the size suddenly gets
big it means you think that thing deserves to take up more space or you think this thing is unworthy
you think it should be smaller so yeah you use what you used in the first part of the video to
tell how a writer feels about what they're writing about for spaces between words it's a little
different look at where there's a big gap big gaps in writing indicate thinking so often it indicates
deceitfulness it often indicates a lie because like you're you're writing you're writing you have
to lie you're thinking of the lie you're coming up with the lie now you have the lie now you
write it down so yeah you can kind of tell when someone's not being truthful or being cautious etc
or like if a writer normally writes really round so like if a writer normally writes pretty rounds
but then the pressure gets heavy and there are some angular formations that start to happen
if the size it starts to get compressed you can tell this person is getting more tense basically
anything that changes in the writing people often tell me leah you know my writing doesn't stay
consistent well that indicates an emotional change the more emotional changes the more moody you are
but in general emotional changes that you can like point out yeah it indicates a mental or emotional
change so as you're probably starting to realize handwriting analysis is like a very complicated
yet simple puzzle it has many different pieces i didn't even get to everything i didn't even
get to letter specifics a lot of traits are common sense but it gets more complicated the more traits
you know it gets more complicated when you have to think about exceptions yeah it's like a very
complicated puzzle it's very easy it's very easy to put the puzzle together wrong and that's why
a lot of graphologists disagree with each other and that's why graphology gets discredited a lot
because you need to be a really good analyst to have consistently accurate analyses but hopefully
this video was fun and explained to you just just a little bit peace out okay i love you bye