Transform Your Life Through Handwriting (Book & CD) [Englisch] [Audio CD]

Transform Your Life Through Handwriting is a spiritual graphology kit consisting of two audio CDs, a spiral bound guidebook, a spiral bound journal, and a deck of alphabet graphology cards. While all these go together very nicely, I was initially surprised to see the way this handwriting transformation kit was arranged, as apparently I'd been expecting a book and CDs, rather than a kit of so many things inside a box.

For those who have read graphology books and studied graphology to any extent, the principle behind transforming one's life through changing one's handwriting is fairly obvious, yet seldom fully explained. There seem to be many more examples and descriptions of what not to do in other books, so Vimala Rodgers' approach of focusing entirely on positive patterns is refreshingly different.

I like the sound of Vimala's voice on the audio tracks of the CDs, and once I'd adjusted to the initial shock of this entire kit being so very different than every other book on graphology I've seen, I started having fun with this program. Each letter is described in terms of its soul quality, its declaration of intent, its alphabetic family, its element, its gender, its gemstone, its animal and its angelic guardian protector. These qualities for each letter gave me a deeper appreciation for the meditations involved in writing each letter in upper and lower case -- and meditation is indeed the best way to describe what is involved. With only a modicum of advice on what not to do, I found myself fascinated by some of the reasoning behind the advice. We therefore learn to avoid writing a "secretary f," for example, that states, "I'll do your work well, but my ideas don't count."

I highly recommend this for anyone open-minded enough to try changing their handwriting, as there is a great deal to learn here, and this system really can work!

After having read the Your Handwriting Can Change Your Life! book, I decided to order this book and CD combination. Wow, I am so glad I did. Folks, this is not a handwriting improvement or a handwriting analysis program. This is a life transformation program! The CDs are awesome; Vimala gives so much information on each letter and her warm personality and in-depth knowledge just comes right through. The cards are very easy to carry or tuck into the notebook I use to practice my letters. I've been using the Vimala Alphabet every day for the last 60 days or so and I can say that amazing and wonderful things are happening almost every day.

Vimala Rodgers has developed alphabetical patterns based on "sacred technology of the ages" and shares them in Transform Your Life hrough Handwriting: a kit with two CDs, a guidebook, a blank journal and 26 cards. Simply put, the author guides readers and listeners to adopt handwriting patterns that bring their hidden talents, abilities, and dreams to life.

"Writing patterns are a graphic image of how your subconscious mind interprets the world and your place in it. As you adopt new letter shapes, you are telling your mind how to think--for perhaps the first time in your life," says Rodgers.

With an interest in handwriting from early childhood, Rodgers has studied Latin, Sanskrit, history, philosophy, and psychology while holding a vision of a career for herself that involves "the transformational power of the letters." "Each stroke of the pen makes a statement--not about who you are, but about who you say you are, i.e., your self-image," she writes.

I've just pulled a card from the Transform Your Life through Handwriting deck, in my left hand, as Vimala Rodgers suggests on her CD, and asked: "What attitude do I need to bring into my life today?" The letter card I chose is U for open-mindedness. The back of the card reads: "I listen to others as though I know nothing."

The guidebook offers me more information on the "soul quality" of the letter U. If I find it difficult to listen "to what others share, without offering contradictory feedback," I ought to start practicing this letter today. The letter U is part of the alphabetical family Rodgers calls the Family of Learning and Evaluating.

Each letter of the alphabet is described in the guidebook with an element, gender, gemstone, animal and guardian protector. On the CDs, Rodgers describes the letters in the order of their alphabetical families, beginning with the Family of Communication; Family of Learning and Evaluating; Family of Honoring and Expressing; Family of Insight, Family of Applied Creativity, Family of Status and Vision, Family of Trusting and Inner Authority; and ending with Grandfather which is the letter Z.

Besides choosing a letter of the day, Rodgers advises practicing a letter for 40 days, the formation of which she describes in the guidebook and on the CDs. I love Rodgers' voice as it's so down-to-earth and practical. She sounds very comfortable and well-versed in this vision she is sharing with the world.

I've chosen to work with the letter of my first name for 40 days: M. the letter M is "the matriarch of the Family of Honoring and Expressing." All this practicing is done with a pen on unlined paper in the landscape direction as "the portrait direction is common; your dreams are not".

I'm finding the practice meditative and spiritual. While practicing a page of letters, I also get to declare my intent, review the aspects of a particular letter and fill a page with how I see "the aspects of this letter impacting [my] life in an uplifting way."

Rodgers says she loves to work with doubters. She gives an example of a male client who was a skeptic but tried the writing system anyway. After the first 40 days he quit smoking. In the second 40 days he went on retreat to Hawaii and in the third, he stopped drinking. Skeptic or not, it sure seems worth a try. As Rodgers says if you follow her practices: "Now watch your life unfold." Vimala Rodgers has done it and inspires others to express their gifts in the world, to "make a difference doing what you love."

by Mary Ann Moore
for Story Circle Book Reviews
reviewing books by, for, and about women