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Persons with extremely large writing do not shy away from center stage. They love nothing better than to be noticed. Often, however, their largeness onstage can show a disregard for the feelings or needs of others.
as you bring balance into your handwriting, you bring balance into your life.
If all your letters are connected it shows that you rely on logic, reason, and well-tried formulas to arrive at conclusions.
If they are unconnected now and again it indicates that you combine reason with insight—also called intuition—before you make up your mind.
Consistent connectivity stifles the imagination and the spirit.
To balance reason with insight, make it a point to break up any word of five letters or more. When you pick up the pen to do this, leave a visible space between the letters. This is an important point to remember, as that small space represents the gap in which spontaneity lives.
I suggest that before you begin your practice writing sessions you straighten your spine as though you were touching your shoulder blades together, then take a few deliberate deep breaths. As you write, consciously remember to breathe. Keep that back straight; it expands your lungs. Remember—writing habits are not all that you are changing.
Pressure on the pen indicates many things, but it basically indicates to what extent you are mentally, emotionally, and physically invested in life.
If your focus is laserlike, your personality is intense, and you invest real passion in what you do, your pressure is going to lean toward the heavy side.
If you exert heavy pressure on the pen, your senses are alive and fully engaged in your day-to-day activities.
If you exert medium pressure on the pen you can still be totally invested in life, but with a more moderate expression of energy. You may feel as deeply as the heavy-pressure writer, but these feelings do not consume you. Like the pressure, they are moderate and express themselves with less passion and intensity.
Although as a light-pressure writer you may be just as physically present as the heavy- and medium-pressure writers, you do not have the degree of mental or emotional investment in life that they do.
Do you prefer to write with a fountain pen? If so, you are most likely a lover of the written word and literature, and you delight in things classical.
