Hello everyone my name is Leah and today we’re gonna be talking about baseline last week we
talked about margins and I naturally started talking about baseline so I wanted to make a video
just about baseline in graphology if you’re new here graphology is very controversial check
out the description and I’ll let the full disclaimer give you a short baseline is just
one thing that can indicate you something about a person in general you look at many many factors
not just baseline and just having a knowledge of baseline can really help you understand a person
writing so let’s get into it there are two main different ways to analyze someone’s baseline you measure the
direction and you measure the steadiness direction meaning like if you put a ruler underneath it
would it be slanted up down and then steadiness is like how wavy is it how much does it stick
to that baseline first, steadiness. how straight a baseline is so if you got a fairly straight baseline
it means if you’re presented with obstacles you can find a solution you won’t get super frazzled
you’re pretty emotionally grounded slightly wavy baseline it means you’re a bit more emotional than
this person but you are more flexible you are more emotionally sensitive most likely than this person
you’re more easily thrown of course but it’s natural and it doesn’t greatly deter you if you
have an extremely erratic base line that’s very very unpredictable it means you know it’s very
hard to know what to expect from this person this person has a harder time keeping their emotions in
check of course if you’re a teenager the teenage mind has like a lot of different conflicting ideas
that happen so I know I have a lot of teenage viewers so please if you’re a teen or if you’re
a child do not think that because your baseline is unpredictable it means you know XY or Z it’s your
growing up please don’t you know this is more than case if you’re an adult adult and the adult has a
very erratic baseline then you really know that you can’t count on this person to act predictably
you can’t count on this person to keep good track of their emotions you can’t count on this person
to be emotionally grounded and then there’s the extreme if you have an extremely straight baseline
that’s a very obsessive way to write it’s very difficult way to write in general anytime a hand
writing is difficult to accomplish means this person is trying so hard you’re trying so hard
to do everything right it creates a lot of tension a lot of nervousness and usually the tension results
in them lashing out in unexpected ways next we have the direction so these are examples of
uphill baseline in general uphill baselines do indicate energy ambition spontaneity
sometimes when it’s too uphill it can indicate someone who is a bit out of touch with reality
someone who has a harder time keeping their feet on the ground there a bit too excited
however not always will an uphill baseline indicate optimism sometimes it can be this person is compensating
sometimes it can be if this person is fighting an uphill battle against a depressive mood or against
pessimism in that situation you do kind of have to look at other aspects of the writing
to see you like oh is this a compensation is this a cover-up or is this person truly
just like super dynamic and ambitious and optimistic and spontaneous so another example is
if you have ascending steps instead of just straight up just going up on the on the upward incline you can go
on ascending steps means you’re trying to bring yourself down you’re trying to bring yourself
down to reality you’re trying not to get too excited but it’s not easy descending steps means person is
trying to bring themselves back up trying not to be pessimistic they’re trying to have a good
outlook on something but it’s not easy and they’re fighting now lets talk about declining baseline or
a falling baseline this can indicate depression pessimism obviously like don’t diagnose yourself from anything that
I say these are just indicators but falling baselines can indicate pessimism depression
however if it’s just every once in a while it indicates fatigue OK a lot of people will look at
someone’s hand writing or people will look at my handwriting- theyll be like leah do you need help in general when you
just see a falling baseline every once in a while it indicates fatigue which is a symptiom of depression but
other things to look for in like downward inclined baseline is a crashing baseline little bit different where the end of the sentence
goes down and this isnt the case if you run out of space that something else check out margins if you
wanna know what that is these dropped endings are an indicator of s*icidality it’s like the hand is
like giving up obviously when you’re looking for indicators of s*icidality in a writer you have
to look at other things as well but that can be an indicator moving on a convex concave baseline
it basically means person is getting tired they’re running out of energy and then they
get enough energy in the end they somehow get it done in the end convex baseline is the opposite
where a person is super excited super excited and they start to get tired and they start to get tired but they
do end up finishing their assignment or whatever the situation is but maybe not as strongly as
they initially thought they would baseline is really all about energy remind myself but yeah
it’s all about energy is all about if you’re confused by baseline just like trace it with
your hand if it’s super erratic then you know that the energy in this person is Super erratic if you
trace it is down energies down feeling low so it’s all about the energy of a person I find that
sounds super like wooo I don’t know but that’s what helps me remember all the different baseline
certain other specific things that can happen in baseline that doesn’t have to do with direction or steadiness is
like certain words rising or falling usually this indicates someone’s opinion on that certain word
so if someone writes like I’m going to the dentist and it falls through some sort of
unease about whatever words are writing like if someone wrote I love you there’s something
uneasy about using this word for them and then the last thing I’ll say about baseline circles
back to what we talked about in the margins video I talked about baseline in relationship
to the blue lines of the paper I talked about this last time there’s example of someone who
disregarded paper they don’t really care they’ll just write wherever they want on the paper
indicates someone who doesn’t really care about the rules they’ll make their own rules sometimes
that’s at the expense of others sometimes it’s perfectly fine and they’re really innovative so I
can go either way then B there’s the example of a person who clings to the line of the page baseline
can also indicate a reality so when you cling to the lines of the page means like you’re really
clinging onto reality like you’re really holding on tightly so that can indicate some anxiety some
desire to be perfect and have it all together C there’s also what can happen is someone who float
above the lines of the paper if this happens every once in a while don’t worry too much about it but
if it’s consistent it indicates someone who doesn’t really feel connected to their reality theyre kind of mentally
elsewhere moving on some people in the comments asked some specific questions about their baseline
someone talked about what if I’m like trying to bring myself down basically like trying not to be
carried away they’re trying to bring themselves back down to earth there trying to bring themselves back
down to earth but it is a fight because they are clearly so imaginative in and so it’s a struggle
they’re trying to bring themselves down there trying to make sure they don’t get too excited
there’s also the example of trying to bring yourself up the opposite of D instead of like
getting carried away you were like trying to bring yourself out of this depressive pessimistic with
thinking you’re trying to bring yourself up but it’s not easy and you’re trying to stay afloat but
you know it’s hard and you can just see that they’re just sinking and I also heard someone
in the comments say that they stay completely in between the lines they don’t touch either line I
haven’t met too many people with this but what I would say if I can make a hypothesis obviously I’d
have to look at the rest of the writing but if I can make a hypothesis it’s not easy to write
like this where you don’t touch either line so usually when writing isn’t easy to accomplish
indicate someone who is like obsessively trying to make their writing look a certain way indicates someone whos holding on too
tightly someone who is like obsessively trying to make sure all their ducks are in a row or
whatever expression you want to use that’s what I would wonder if I saw someone who wrote completely
in between the lines of the paper but that’s just a hypothesis OK and then someone said that
they write on the line they write on the line they don’t write on top of the line they right
through the line almost like the line is like a guideline so to me obviously you’d want to look at
other aspects of the handwriting but what I would say about this is your writing over a pre-drawn
line so you’re basically crossing out everything that you write your annihilating your own words
with the pre-existing lines of the paper so to me that indicates someone whose super self destructive. OK that’s all I have today this lesson that I did today
is basically a compilation of things that I’ve learned along my journey studying graphology
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