Handwriting wizardry comes naturally to her

Positioning a few strokes here and there in your handwriting can help you shed unwanted fat from your body or even infuse a new life in your awry relationship. India’s celebrity graphologist (handwriting analyst) Aditi Surana has hard-to-believe insights like these to share.

Surana, who recently visited the Capital, discovered her talent at the age of 14, after acknowledging her dyslexia. She recalls: “Once, my school teacher asked students to write the maximum number of zeroes they could in a minute on a paper. I noticed patterns in different people’s writing.”

However, it wasn’t a piece of cake for her to take it up professionally. “My father, an art director in Bollywood, did not believe it to be a career option. He asked me to leave the house, and didn’t speak to me for six years,” she says.

Cut to present, after 13 years of research and experience, Surana has been credited for having changed the life of many a top shots of the corporate world and has advised many a Bollywood celebs including actors John Abraham and Bipasha Basu (on how different they were), filmmaker Subhash Ghai and even actor-turned-politician Smriti Z Irani! “I can not only decipher an individual from their writing but also identify their psychological constraints and suggest corrective measures,” she says.

A case in point: A former CEO of a company who was undergoing mid-life crisis. “He reached where he wanted to be, at the age of 39, and was clueless about what next. After a few sessions with him and changing his handwriting movements, I was able to make him realise what he wanted. Today, he is a consultant with one of his ex-clients, works at his own pace and enjoys life like he feels,” says Surana.

“People have come out of their diabetes, weight issues, break up and what not by just changing a few strokes and reprogramming parts of their handwriting,” she adds.

From a calligraphic script to a scribbled note, a graphologist can decode it all. “It’s the permutation and combination of 800 strokes that builds your handwriting. For me, the strokes are like flow of thoughts and have an emotional code... For instance, the more I work with celebs, the more I realise that their fear of losing what they have is higher than their driving force or passion,” says Surana.

People have come out of diabetes, weight issues, break up and what not by changing a few strokes, and reprogramming parts of their handwriting ADITI SURANA, GRAPHOLOGIST