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Oh Vimala...
Thank you over and over again for having me stand back and see that's it's ME: who I am and how I affect other people that has them act as though they don't like me. I had no idea it had to do with how I feel about myself. I just assumed they were opinionated people.
Here's how I "got" it. One of my co-workers has a first name that begins with  , as I do. A few months ago I noticed that when she used the whiteboard in a class she was giving, all the letters in her writing were changing---really different than they used to be. Because both our names begin with , it especially caught my attention. Hers used to have a humungous loop in the upright part, like mine, but she started making it with a stick---even the lowercase one. What also changed was her attitude. She used to be sharp-tongued with anyone in class who asked a question. But, month by month, she began to respond with a friendly laugh in an understanding way. I didn't relate her handwriting to her personality because it never occurred to me that they were connected.
Because of her new attitude and because is also the initial of my first name, I felt safe commenting on her new writing, and she thanked me, telling me why she had changed most of her writing habits, especially the Letter  . She had done a workshop with you, purchased your book, and follows it like a "writing bible!"---her words. She added: "It makes me feel happy just to be who I am!" So of course I bought your book. The first thing I did was to turn to the page about the Letter . When I read your description I almost fell over backwards. What had me almost not follow your suggestions was the Declaration of Intent. "I interact with everyone as though they love me." My instant thought was this: "Nobody likes me so how can
I pretend they do?! I'll do the writing instead."
I was committed to begin writing my just like yours. Writing it felt really strange because I was attached to forming that loop, but I figured I could make it into a stick, at least for the 40 days you suggested. Then, after about a week of daily writing---a big Ah Ha!---I got that my team leader's new attitude was just like the one you described! She had begun treating everyone as though they respected her, which she had NEVER done before. She was listening without judging, and she made suggestions without being sarcastic, which was her old way. Your Declaration of Intent and the letter seemed to support one another. I was determined to find out how.
With the leading the parade, in my writing I started including all four letters in my first name. It became fun because I made it a game by inviting the letters to "shape up!" I even began to cross my  on top. Weird? But I did it. The hardest step was to begin "interacting with everyone as though they love me," but again, I did it. The first day I began this practice I was surprised at two things: 1) People were actually friendly to me, and some even smiled (!) and 2) how good it made me feel, like being "clean" inside---free of preconceived notions about myself: "respectful" is a good description. This was all brand new!
Okay Vimala. You win. That old loop in the stem is gone forever, and I'm changing other letters, "three by three," as you recommend. It's so clear now that I was the one setting the stage for not being liked. I love my new writing---and your CDs really helped me understand the letters---but I still love the best, and as a member of your Alphabetical Prayer Circle, I write a few extra lines of it each morning. Your "interacting" practice has also become a natural part of who I am. In truth, these two new disciplines have given me a whole new life! You just can't imagine. Thank you. Thank you. I can't say it enough: "Thank You!"
With love from the new me,
Patty Mc L.
Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
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After years of study and research, Vimala Rodgers developed The Vimala Alphabet. Each letter shape is designed specifically to bring your hidden talents and abilities to life. As you begin to adopt self-affirming writing patterns, you naturally release those that are self-limiting, and at the same time you reconfigure the neurological patterns in your brain. This process is invaluable for people who are determined to let go of the past and stride ahead fully expressed in life. In scientific circles it is called neuroplasticity or cortical remapping. All it takes is pen and paper.
Does it work? You bet it does! -- every time. Pick up your pen and experience it for yourself.
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If you are among the courageous visionaries who want to transform their lives through the Vimala Alphabet technology, choose at least 3 letters:
- The first letter is the initial of your first name - not nickname, but your real birth first name. If you adopted a new first name after your 35th birthday, use that as your first name. By writing this letter, you will experience profound personal changes.
- The second letter is the Letter of the Week.
- The third letter is one you have chosen in order to bring about a specific transformation in your life. Choose a letter from the Vimala Alphabet Guidebook.
Follow these steps:
- Write at least 3 lines of upper and lowercase letters.
- Write on unlined paper in the landscape direction.
- No pencils, please. Use a pen.
- Begin by writing once, at the top of the page, the Declaration of Intent of the initial of your first name.
- Write the first and third letters for at least 40 consecutive days. If you skip a day, start over. 40 is the number of transformation; it takes 40 days for the neurons in the brain to realign themselves, which is what the process of adopting self-affirming handwriting patterns does.
- Write the third letter for a single week.
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Just as you have gifts unique to who you are, so does each letter. I call them "aspects." I'd like to begin our new venture by sharing one of those aspects, perhaps the most important one of all: the Guardian Protector.
Through the years I've studied hundreds of traditions throughout the world, and have found that within each one, there are such beings that we call called "angels" in English, yet are called by a different name in many traditions: devas in the scriptures of India, Al-Malaikah in the Qur'an of Islam, Malakh in the Hebrew Bible----and on and on throughout the world. To avoid religious distinctions, I call each one a Guardian Protector, because that is their role.
Trust me ---They are as alive and attentive as you and I--just invisible, that's all--but fully present nonetheless. Create a conversation with them---then you will know. As with everything I teach, I insist that you do not believe what I say. To know in your heart of hearts that what I say is true, I suggest that you experience it by adopting suggested writing habits, along with applying the aspects of each letter, especially that of the Guardian Protector.
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The Letter is the alphabetical representation of the foundation of a spiritual life: overpowering the ego through Self-lovability. Ego-free Self-love is demonstrated in a life lived in Joy with no judgments of anyone, including yourself.
By looking around, it's easy to see who has mastered this attitude: people who are kind, understanding, and who listen to us even when they don't agree. They smile for no apparent reason; they even smile and say kind things to grumpy folks they don't even know. They hold judgments of no one and nothing. They look you in the eye. They laugh easily---always with others, never at them. They are at peace within themselves. I could fill this page with profound quotations from scriptures both ancient and modern, stating the importance of loving ourselves. My favorite summation, however, was spoken in 1928 by W.C. Fields: "It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to."
Declaration of Intent:
I interact with everyone as though they love me.
(As though they love me---not the other way around.) Even on the very first day that you begin this practice, you will awaken to parts of yourself you may have been unaware of. Give it a go and see for yourself. As the days go on...well, you will see. Adopting this practice as a way of life will revolutionize---and literally sanctify---all your relationships. Every single one. No exceptions.
Guardian Protector: Charmiene (Shar-me-EN)-the angel of harmony.
Charmeine wraps a warm feeling of harmony around us like a blanket of love from the Mother. She is charged with leading us on our journey to Self-love, cutting us free from the bonds of our smaller self. Whenever you are consumed with self-doubt, have a talk with Charmeine, insisting that she snap you out of your mood and remind you that yes, you are loveable just as you are right now. Then pick up your pen and begin to inscribe, slowly and deliberately, lines of the Letter , upper and lowercase. Then write words with in them. Pepper, porcupine, Penelope, prop---find your own. Combining this practice with the Letter  is an unbeatable combination to get you back on track, a beautiful way, if I may add an alphabetical tidbit: to mind your 's and  's.
How to inscribe the letter
Uppercase: Draw a firm "I am" stroke to the baseline. Pick up the pen. At the top of the upperzone, a tad to the left of the "I am" stroke, begin to shape a full "arc of respect" stopping midway down the initial stem. Finish with an inner loop heading off to the right.
Lowercase: Same as the uppercase, occupying the mid- and lower zones.
Caveat:
Do not ever retrace the stem.
Do not ever put a loop in the stem.
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A dynamic speaker and workshop leader, Vimala Rodgers brings to her presentations a vast knowledge of her subject and a warm enthusiasm for people. Her presentations are offered as 90-minute to 3-hour interactive talks, one- or two-day seminars, or weekend retreats.
Although Vimala will be teaching an advanced course in 2012, she is currently not available for keynoting, in-house presentations, retreats, and private consultations, but will be, once she finishes the book she is writing. Radio shows? Any time!
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Founding principles of the
International Institute of Handwriting Studies
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Last year, several "Handwriters for Peace" members requested, and we formed, an Alphabetical Prayer Circle through which members could ask for specific prayers in emergency situations and we would hold both those intentions with our own intentions in our prayers.
Because it's time to expand the Circle, I'm inviting you to join us. There is no need to become a Handwriter for Peace, nor do you have to give me your name, only your e-mail address, as I send all Prayer Circle Emails as BCCs. If you choose to join us, please send an e-mail to vimala@vimalarodgers.com with PRAYER CIRCLE in the Subject Box and this message: I'd like to join your Alphabetical Prayer Circle.
To strengthen our intentions, each day we agree to spend a precious 10 seconds once---or many times a day---offering our Alphabetical Healing Prayer:
Fill each of us with Your Healing Light:
those of us in this Prayer Circle,
all those we love,
and all those we have difficulty loving.
Thank You.
Also...In the course of the day, each of us devotes a few minutes of quiet time to write, on unlined paper, one line of the initial of our first name (not nickname) in both upper- and lowercase. Just one line; that's it...more if you care to. Read more online...
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