Handwriting analysis tips: 5 dangerous signature styles you must definitely avoid

Normally, I desist from analysing signatures unless they are accompanied by handwriting samples. Yet, some people insist on signature analysis. I avoid it because if the signature is analysed in isolation, there are chances of me going wrong about the personality of the writer. It’s because handwriting shows how the person is, whereas signature reveals how he wants the world to see him. Hence, it is possible that signature analysis can mislead me. A signature can project a face that may not be true at all.

However, signatures cannot be written off as unimportant because though they may not be adequate for the purpose of a complete handwriting analysis, they are a part and parcel of the writers’ lives. According to signature analysis, every time you draw your signature, you make a statement to yourself and to the rest of the world, saying, “See, this is who I am.” It means that the signature is a reflection of how one behaves in public and how one handles oneself.

For example, a woman may wear a pleasant smile all the time (reflected by signature), but whether she is really happy or not will be revealed by her handwriting, not signature. Hence, it is not fair to judge a book by its cover, but still the cover is crucial because it keeps the pages together.

Good & bad signatures

So, in this article we will talk only about the covers i.e. signatures. There are many kinds — good and bad. I can’t discuss them all. Here, I will tell you about five kinds of signatures you must avoid. I will also tell you why and how to change your signature. If you find yours similar to any of them, change it immediately.

But before that, a few more words on signature analysis. Many of us chose our signatures when we were around 15 years of age. We liked a combination of strokes and decided that this is how our signatures should be; this is how we should appear to the world. All that is fine. No problem here. But would you disagree that as a teenager, our needs and responsibilities were different from what we have as an adult? We had fewer responsibilities and a certain attitude towards life and the world around us. As a grown-up person, we now have many more responsibilities and at times we need a great deal of attitude adjustment to survive.

Why you should change your signature

Let me explain: as a 15-year-old, many of my needs were being fulfilled by my parents. Whatever I needed, I was given. If I did not get something I wanted, I threw tantrums. Never felt any need for attitude adjustment. I did not even know what attitude adjustment meant. Understandably, with an approach like that, it would be difficult to survive because people around me do not love me as my parents do. They will not be as forgiving as my parents are. They have no reason to put up with my tantrums. Hence, if I choose to keep that attitude, I might lose friends.

Similarly, if one is used to getting things too easily and effortlessly, one will lack patience in real life and may become a quitter. These are just a few examples. There are many more. (Read more on handwriting analysis traits)

So, the question arises is how the attitude and approach of an individual is linked to his signature. I said at the beginning that as per signature analysis, signatures show who we want ourselves to be seen. And every time we sign in a particular way, we reinforce those beliefs. Hence, if we change the way we sign our names, it will result in a change of attitude far more conducive to interpersonal harmony. Let’s see what to avoid in a signature:

1. Strike-through signature

This is one kind of signature which I always find alarming. The signature you see on your right has been lifted from the suicide note of a Mumbai-based girl who killed herself in 2008. The girl wrote in her suicide note that she was taking the extreme step because she was not well prepared for her exams.

According to signature analysis, the baseline of her suicide note clearly indicates that she was depressed and that she really did not like herself. Look at the strike-through strokes in her signature. Such strokes in signatures reflect self-hatred, a tendency to stab and punish oneself . That’s exactly what the girl did.

Signature analysis says that if you have a signature with horizontal or vertical strike-through strokes (like my reader Mr Chaturvedi has), get rid of it. Because every time you do a signature like this, you reinforce whatever the strokes stand for. If it’s self-hatred, you will dislike yourself all the more and take rash steps to sabotage everything you have accomplished or achieved. Therefore, keep it plain ‘n’ simple.

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