What is Graffirmations?

As we step into each day we are sandwiched between the past experiences that make us and the present situations that demand our response. It is a continuum which many people are too immersed in to recognise. Our personality becomes etched in stone. We know who we are, everyone else knows how we respond, and new situations are dealt with in our predictable ways.

But if we don't like who we are or wish to improve or change in some way then we find ourselves at a disadvantage. It is not easy to be someone we are not because it is an attempt to deny the essence of our own make-up.

What we need to do is sit back and take stock. To step out of the continuum, and take account of the traits that are our trademark. When we have done this we can look at ways of changing ourselves in subtle ways. Anything drastic is false and unsuccessful. We need to make slight improvements to our self image and responsiveness to situations so that they become triggers to further change. We can then begin to see ourselves more positively, and others begin to react to us in ways that are more nourishing to that image of ourselves.

Like a snowball gathering pace and growing larger, the small changes we make can soon produce greater results as people are more responsive to us, and our sense of ourselves improve. Soon that self -image, and the responses of other's bring in new experiences that we carry with us as we step into another day. But then it has become a set of experiences that we are happy with. We have become stronger with who we are. We have become who we want to be.

We all need a procedure to take us out of ourselves and guide us somewhere new. We need a way to alter some of the negative traits that have become a part of us, to take stock, and to move up.

For more than one hundred years graphologists have used the handwriting of clients to help them to understand the roots of who they are, and to counsel them through their problems. The last seventy years has seen the development of handwriting as a therapy in itself, helping to change some of the characteristics that have held people down from who they wanted to be. Now we have an additional item to this effect; a method of combining both elements of understanding and change with a technique of self-enhancement. A way of understanding; a method of changing; and a technique for improving. This method is called Graffirmations.

WHAT GRAFFIRMATIONS IS

Take a look at the way you write. Write a letter to yourself and see the conce
s that you express in the words, but also look at the way you form the words themselves. Both the thoughts you express on the page and the strokes you use when you write them represent who you are at the moment. Make subtle changes to these, in a direction you want to go, and you will begin the process of improvement that you seek.

Writing things down is the beginning of the therapy. It is a way of getting your problems off your chest. You can pour out all those negative emotions that you are unable to communicate to others, and you see them before you on the page. They are out there, isolated and ready to be dealt with. You can confront them challenge them and change them.

Your handwriting is also a message in itself, telling who you are, how you feel and why you respond in the way you do. If you can understand that message you will gain insight into how to improve yourself in areas of weakness or how to enhance those areas of strength.

If you combine the two, by changing the way you write and by isolating and positively changing those negative attitudes expressed on the page and changing them into positives, you have begun to make the subtle improvements in your life that can alter the course from nowhere to somewhere.

Graffirmations is a refreshing approach to self help. It is a movement away from the 'just do it' genre, where you are told 'to snap out of it' and 'geddalife'. Self improvement is not about putting on a mask with a smiley face. Self improvement is about taking a look at who you are and slightly changing course. A drastic shift is not needed, just a few degrees can make a great difference over time. nnn