Last year when my wife bought your handwriting kit, I laughed when I saw it, and told her that you are the person I'd told her about years ago. Then we both laughed at the "coincidence." Laura (not her real name) has always enjoyed handwriting, and rarely sends emails when a personal note is possible. When I've told her how unusual and lovely her handwriting is, she always says that she feels that a few of her letter formations didn't feel right, and she wished she could learn to write them so they felt good---but the cursive she learned in elementary school turned her off.
That's when she found your handwriting kit. When she plays the CDs, hearing your voice takes me back in time---and I laugh! But to go on---After reading the guidebook and listening to the CDs, she began her writing practice every morning, sometimes at night as well. She just loves doing her writing, and was writing so much, that the journal in your kit soon turned out to be too small, so she invested in a "sketch pad," because it's large and has no lines. My response? Ludi incipiant! because when Laura starts anything, she goes all the way!
She began sharing your newsletter with me, and we both enjoy it tremendously. One Sunday morning after reading a Story From the Heart, the same thought came to both of us at the same time: We looked at each other, laughed, and agreed that I needed to share with your readers YOUR story from the heart---that still keeps us laughing when I, and friends I used to work with, address one another using the eponym you gave us!
Okay! Here's the story I know you'll remember---and I am not the only one who does! The year is 1992 and I, along with 17 other computer engineers, all male, were told that for an hour we had to listen to a speaker [you] tell us about the benefits of handwriting. Emails were uncommon in those days, and we preferred to type anyway---but we figured that spending an hour away from the keyboard wouldn't do us any harm. About handwriting? Oh well...
You began by explaining how handwriting patterns indicate thinking patterns, and by changing one, the other will follow. The guy next to me stopped you in mid-sentence when you were explaining how the brain/hand worked together---and asked, out of the blue---how a person with no training in interpreting handwriting patterns could tell how another person reasons, thinks, and reaches conclusions. You replied that there is one way to be sure, but you'd need a clear sample of that person's writing to do so. Paraphrased, here's what you suggested:
"If you're having trouble understanding how another person processes and interprets information, get a piece of paper just like the one with the writing on it. Then find a pen that looks as though the sample were written with it---ball point or fountain pen (there were no gel pens in those days), the width of the nib, the color of ink, and begin to imitate the words---exactly. Imitate as precisely as possible, these things: Pressure of the pen on the paper; size and clarity of the letters, the direction the words are slanted---right, left or upright; how close or far apart the words and lines were spaced, how large or small the letters were"---and half a dozen other things I've long forgotten.
You said we could not understand with absolute certainly the writer's personality, but we would have an insight as to how the writer reached his conclusions. After you were through, one of the guys piped up,
"You mean if I imitate my wife's handwriting I can understand how she thinks?!" We all roared with laughter---for a good long time! When the last chuckle and comment subsided and the room was still, with a self-satisfied expression on your face, you looked around the room at each of us, one by one, as you replied, "There is no way you can understand how a woman thinks." In the next breath with an official tone of voice, you went on to declare: "You are the Chipless Wonders of the World!" Your words made us feel as though we had been knighted!---and knowing laughter filled the room.
So there you have it, Vimala, from one of your Chipless Wonders! Carry on!
Sir C.W., John H.
Fremont, CA
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P.S. Now and again through the years when I have received a phone call at different times from three different persons, I can hear the smile come right through the phone with these words: "Hello Vimala! This is one of your Chipless Wonders!" Then the laughter!
---Vimala
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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.
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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  looks so simple to form: Swirl, swirl, loop, done. Like life! Almost like a dance---but as you and I know, sometimes we just can't keep up when the tempo accelerates. Of all the letters, the Letter insists that we s-l-o-w d-o-w-n, not only as we move the pen, but as we move through life. Take deep breaths more often; stop and enjoy your surroundings whether in the city or in a forest; take a walk when possible; when you pass by a garden, be aware of the beauty; drop into perfect silence when others are speaking; and never let family and friends come last. Never. Instead have your hugs, smiles, and laughter be an expression of your love for them. Guardian Protector: Ariel (Ah-ree-EL)---the angel of nature.
Ariel represents Mother Nature at her balanced best. She oversees not only all plants, animals, insects, and bugs, she also guides the energy in our lives for we, too, are a part of nature. On those days when it feels as though all the demands of life are crushing down on you, take a break and ask for Ariel's help. Go for a walk, or if that's not possible, excuse yourself from whatever you're doing and find a place to be alone, a quiet place---no phones---no computers---no one else---and sit where's there's a writing surface handy. Close your eyes and invoke Ariel's presence and guidance. Take a few deep breaths, then open your eyes, and slowly---the key is slowly---write lines of the letter and lighthearted words that contain it. Invest at least 20 minutes of quality time writing. Her help takes many forms---so don't be surprised when it comes. Be grateful.
Declaration of Intent: There are no extremes in my life.
How to inscribe the most self-affirming
Letter
Uppercase: Begin as though inscribing the Letter  . At the top of the midzone, gently reverse the stroke and create a backward letter , filling the midzone. Finish by forming a horizontal loop at the baseline, reaching forward.
Lowercase: A miniature of the uppercase, filling only the midzone.
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Some time ago our Newsletter Angel explained why the lower loops when we write become "high flying" loops in the newsletter. In case you weren't here at the time, let me explain, as simply as I can with my minimal electronic knowledge: The formatting we use won't allow the loops to 'settle down' where they belong, especially when they appear on a mobile device...and we know of no other program that will. If these misplaced loops still bother you, you might want to do this: Practice writing lines of the Letter (patience), the  Ligature (non-resistance), and the Letter  (gentle acceptance of what is). You might also include a few lines of the initial of your first name, because that one letter holds within it your greatest opportunity for spiritual growth---a curriculum in itself, as it were.
Sursum et pergite! (Upward and onward!)
Vimala
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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. |
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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