The Slant Of Your Handwriting And Your Emotions

The tilt or slant is often called the emotional quotient. It is the measure of emotions and expression.

Individual expression begins at the extreme left tilt representing the inhibiting self-repression and the extent to the extreme right tilt of unstable emotionalism, and impulsive irresponsibility. Right tilt follows the natural movement of communication from self to life. The degree establishes the desire or reach towards life for understanding and approval. The vertical tilt should be considered the posture of self, free of emotion. Mind rules from the vertical position.

The further right tilts the more emotional, and passionate the behavior, and the less intellectual or mind controlled expression. Left of vertical indicates introversion, caution and repression. The degree leftward is the measure of inhibition and unconscious fear of life. Heart, emotion and passion dominate the strong right slants. Fear, suspicion, inhibition are shown by the left slant.

Very emotional people will defend their emotionalism on the erroneous assumption that it is measure of love. Actually, nothing is further from the truth. The degree of tilt establishes a desire or reach towards life or approval. Does this mean the person who writes vertical does not desire approval? No, not really. Everyone likes approval but to some, it is a desperate need. The vertical writer is not involved emotionally in what you or I say or think. He is intellectually weighing and considering it. He likes praise but if it is not there, it will not bother him much. This mind rules attitude has much to be said for it, yet he must face the consequences of strictly intellectual involvement with others. It seems to be totally lacking in warmth and feeling for the people around him, in spite of the fact that the warmth and feeling may be there but it is controlled and therefore unexpressed. How can you spot this in a writer? His writing is vertical but also very loopy, both bold and tall loops. The feeling is there but it is restrained, and held back. The vertical writer has a strictly controlled intellectual approach to life. Those who write that way can be cold and unexpressive. Intellectual control can make life well regulated and well managed but it looses something in relationships such as a marriage partner or as a parent. The ability to express feeling or emotion can add much to the relationship. It is because of this that a slight right slant is the ideal mental approach. The feeling and reach are there. When those feelings and emotions are not given free range, they are generally under control, which is the ideal of mental posture.

Just because tilt is extreme does not necessarily mean the emotion is very great. It simply means the outward expression of what emotion there is - is extreme. Some people are very emotional or expressive of their feelings, but they can be very superficial or shallow feelings. You also need to see if the middle zone loops are very compressed or tied up in knots. If they are, it means tremendous emotional feeling is felt but much of it is held back or suppressed. Usually this is not true of the extreme right tilts. The emotional pressure in those cases is usually too much for anybody to contain. People who write like that are like a steam boiler with safety valves popping off constantly releasing dangerous pressures. They laugh too extreme, cry too extreme, literally tear themselves up mentally and physically with emotions they are permitting to run wild. Their heads, regardless of how good it is, seldom gets a chance to run things. Their feelings dominate their life and behavior and most of their lives are spent reacting emotionally rather than thoughtfully to life pressures and challenges.

Those extreme right tilts are following the natural movement of communication from self to life, but there is an apparent problem. The people who write with the extreme right slants have gone too extreme; therefore, their behavior will not be normal. They will over react to life until something or someone teaches them better. The truth is, a little emotion is natural and long well received, but excess of it not only tears people up physically but makes it impossible to have intelligent thought and behavior.

So, what about those tilts swinging back to left? These people are capable of love and emotion. They just have difficulty expressing it. Check the size of the loops to see if there is any feeling. Left tilt or left slant writers may talk to a lot. They frequently talk perhaps too much in an effort to hide their fear or insecurity. However, talking does not necessary mean they are saying what they think. Left slant writers, whether they chatter about inconsequential matters or have little to say, are afraid to come out into the open and speak their minds or express their feelings. They are convinced they would be rejected or unloved if they did. They are the people who usually have been dominated by aggressive or assertive parents and they learned long ago you can stay out of trouble by either keeping your mouth shut or saying something other then their real thoughts.

We all become the kind of person our habits of reacting to those around us have made us. It is an old story-do a thing often enough and it begins to become a standard part of your life and peoples handwriting truthfully exposes what those standards of reaction are.

Inhibition is quite often used to describe those left slants, which is just a fancy word for fear. Moreover, fear makes it either difficult or sometimes impossible for such writers to communicate well with their fellow man.

How important is communication? Communication is the very purpose for handwriting. It is also the foundation for all trust and understanding between people. People who write with a left tilt or backhand are showing their fear unconsciously to the graphologist. They can hardly believe their expression or communication is hampered by unconscious fear. They are more inclined to think, since they have always felt a little rather self-conscious, that everyone expresses their feelings that way. They will admit that they have difficulty being comfortable with strangers, or perhaps have trouble maintaining conversations with people they do not know well. But generally they are unaware they are inhibited, in spite of the fact that more expressive personalities complain they are unexpressive and cold or have to beg them for praise and words of admiration or approval. Learning more about graphology will teach you the meaning of the double and closed up tied loops. People who write with those back slanted or tilted letters with double and closed-up-tight loops are seldom saying what they are really thinking and feeling. As we consider these inhibitions, please remember to each of us, our thoughts, our reactions seem normal since ours are the only reaction. People only measure themselves by the comparison to others close around them. The variations and comparisons will tend to convince people that it is the others are abnormal.

Some writers have all kinds of slants or tilts in there so you must decide which one is dominate. What does it mean when the slant or tilt goes in all directions? It simply means that the writers' behavior goes in all directions too. It is a positive sign of character and emotional instability. People who write like that are erratic, unpredictable, and undependable. They are often times literally confused in behavior. A few signs of varied tilt do not mean unstable and erratic. Everyone can show some of these indications at times. It is when all of the script is bouncing from one tilt to another, sometimes even within a single word. When the tilt changes from strong right to positive left, you have indications of extreme behavior. Many people with a right tilt have variations in their interest and enthusiasm and emotion and therefore reflect this in their handwriting.

Keep in mind that a written sample shows your feelings while you are in the act of writing it, and your dominant tendencies will show. If you are writing happy news, optimism will show or on the contrary, if you are writing sad news it too will show. Your handwriting constantly reflects changes to match your mood. If you tend to doubt this make it a point to write something the next time you are angry and then when you are cooled off compare it with your normal script.

It is a testimonial to the accuracy of handwriting analysis when people say; I never write two things alike. My handwriting keeps changing. The simple fact is that since handwriting is really brainwriting, it would have to be changing - as changeable as people are.

Keep in mind also that the smaller and more pinched or compressed the writing regardless of the tilt the more we must conclude that the emotion may be there but the desire to let it out is restricted or inhibited by caution, suspicion, or just plain fear. So make your tilt judgment always keeping in mind that size and clarity or open o's and a's and even double looping should or can modify conclusions about the tilt.

As an example some people may be extremely emotional, writing with an extreme right tilt and yet have all the signs indicating that they are seldom saying or expressing what they really are thinking. Others may write with the slight to medium left tilt and be completely honest when they communicate but literally dislike people and therefore only speak and write when absolutely necessary. So you see, that reticent left tilt can mean something other than fear. It can mean cold indifference.

The slant or tilt is a picture of our desire or lack of desire to share our thoughts and feelings. A vertical script is going to be better at self control than either tilt extreme, but certainly they will also be less than enthusiastic than the right tilt and also they will do better working alone, all other things equal. However, they will not mix and participate well with group activities. Vertical writers, writing in a small size with modest capitals will tend to hold back, will not take unnecessary risks, and will usually be conservative.

If their script is large it will increase their daring and social awareness and interest, unless there are other indications of carelessness, like absent eye dots, or poorly cross t-bars. Vertical writers, especially if the script is medium or small will be very efficient people. This is due to the non-involvement with emotion. They can be very cool, calm, and efficient. They generally do not do well when it comes to motivating others. It takes warmth or feeling to generate enthusiasm in others. Backhand or left slant writers are more cautious than others are, and inclined to be reticent in expression. They have difficulty generating warmth, praise, or enthusiasm. The slight to medium right slant writers like life and people, are sociable, they can bubble with enthusiasm, and give with praise. They are restless and on the go when in good health. Extreme left and extreme right tilts can be jointly classified in some negative areas since both are extremes of expressions. Both tilts would be classified with the following negative traits, lack of restraint, haste, lacks discipline, thoughtlessness, radicalism, and hysteria. These people need graphotheraphy and have probably never heard of it.

Size, angularity, and legibility, and many other factors can modify slant or tilt conclusions, but these are the basic implications. Naturally, you will want to redefine those judgments with all the evidence present and consider the total script picture. If you test the basics on friends and relatives, you will find that without the refined knowledge, these basics are surprisingly accurate in character evaluations.