welcome to new connection where you can tune in and grow i'm your host vicky thompson you may be familiar with new connection magazine for conscious living which has been enjoyed by readers in the pacific northwest for more than seventeen years now we're excited to bring a new connection to life in your home a new connection we welcome authors practitioners and visionaries to share new ideas for alternative health spirituality and personal growth today and like to welcome to new connection mary ann wright mocker who teaches people young do every day and it's something that's very practical something very purposeful but how can we in life in our handwriting you've been working on this for a long time and you've become interested in handwriting from a very young age i've heard it's true and in fact i was persuaded by an elementary school teacher to just study the writing methodology that all my peers were using because i my writing through my school years didn't look like anyone else's and she wanted me to be able to master the little green things around the room but i have always been fascinated by script and line and wanted to make my words dance on a page and i find myself doing that to this very day well you have produced some very beautiful books with calligraphy with art and your handwriting is incredibly beautiful now they said your childhood what there are a lot of people don't like their handwriting it's surprising the number of people that don't like their handwriting and yet when you think about it not only as you say is that something that we do virtually every day but it is a unique expression extension of ourselves and i have had people for years asked me to please teach them to write like me and i've developed a methodology to answer that question and serve serve their request but what i really do is help people write more like themselves so how can we learn to write like ourselves and i'd like to invite our viewers at this point to get a pad of paper and great idea crayons get pencils markers and join us because you're in for a treat with marianne today to learn how to enliven your handwriting a lot of people make the claim that they're not artistic and really i want them to be surprised today the end of our time together we have art supplies all over our houses and don't even really stop and think about it these are pretty common sight a box colorful box of crayons colored pencils and even these little white tipped is just take that marker in your hand and write your name in the way that you usually do that you're most comfortable with that's great now i'm going to take that away family in our classrooms and at luxury halls and when we're on hold for a long periods of time waiting for customer service somewhere we will move our hands and we call  well you know that couldn't be more perfect for someone who's for meaning connections because that's just a symbolic representation of someone with a lot of vision and ideas that's so much fun this form that you see right here job on any piece of paper i'd like you to take that connect it and run it from one side to the other and at home you would be taking one of the most repetitive forms that you saw the little doodle that you did and you'd be running that connected all across the page go ahead and do it several lines were  boxes triangular shapes because what people draw naturally when they're doing is a reflection of how they think where their mind goes and and shapes are have levels of comfort for everybody that makes them now using a different color penetrate you i would like you to write a series of positive words just they don't have to be related any words that come to your mind that make you think of charcoal images or positiv ok let's take a look at this together here in your writing you seen naturally that you in your hand have imitated the shape that you s usually takes a little bit longer but i've got you on a fast track so you are going to take this forward a lot of joy health and spirit and a purpose thinking about this form got my word i gotta go to live now but it's funny when you talk about the morning because it makes me think more about what i'm writing and taking my time oh i will look how round and  bet you can't imagine taking the time to write like this with everything that i actually have seen examples of how in our everyday lives and in life and and saves us money and helps us communicate more deeply and more effectively curlicues i'm going to actually stop you right there because that is such a perfect representation of what i want to show our audience the excellent the there's a person in your world that you adore that you love very much and if you don't mind sharing it with everyone in the world i'd like you to write that person's name not so big but stretched out starting right here underneath the word qualities about tristen that you really admire and write him one two three anybody watching this can see that you and i are not fussy at all about the colors that we're laying down on the sheet of paper we're just grabbing what we've got  just like the letters with that vibrant colors showing through card oh how sweet and this little piece of paper in the background is nothing more than a file label i'm going to show here this is how i need your card i'm holding these pens as if they were one writing and i'm going to with this technique i like to finish in a circle so that there is a border created by the character and then we get to do exactly what we just did with tristen fluff piece you color and like stained glass and decide where you are those are your words i gave transformation vision and imagination heart and compassion and connecting and just as you did i stretched i stretched my words so they created a little visual box this is a very special greeting card this could be for no reason at all it could be because of your birthday and it's just such a great way to use and live and you know in a way that's practical and meaningful that's a really sweet and simple to do so is that aligning our hand are we just kind of letting our creativity flow more you or a person that in my veins there he does two things the little exercises that we did at the start help focus on a shape that is more natural to you because as adults over the years our handwriting has gotten muddled rushed we have forgotten to cannot get to the symbols that come naturally from us but you did that right at the beginning by connecting it the way that you naturally doodle and incorporating absolutely mediately in cheer him right exactly and so for me here's another example that i prepared this took less than three minutes and this is with all crayon and i'd like to show another example of how what comes to your mind vicki when we think about the word  this is scripted viewers but i want you to see me doing  that is such a beautiful message and it's simple it was easy to achieve they were materials that we would find in most all of our home and we didn't put that in a frame day and you you don't have to make an assessment i am an artist i'm not an artist don't don't fuss about that just pick up the materials and you like what we saw you and i doing today and suddenly you have created that ability to gift your friends with and live and and something that will really matter and mean mean something to them for some time to come said that anything worth his time anything that he would put his hands to was worth the effort of making it as beautiful as possible so i would like to encourage everyone to apply the principles that they saw here with these small artful projects in all of the ways that they communicate with their hand every day i'm a show on have you think you demonstrate yet another thing why don't so you asked how to make this practical on a daily basis other examples so you're at work and you just found out that someone in this immediate family member has received a diagnosis that no one considers especially goodness it's a busy day you don't have time to go out and purchase a card for that individual but you can cut a little it might seem simple to you but i'll tell you what the person that received that bad news is going to be so touched and delighted that you were spotted in the mom with something personal as your handwriting and it's such a simple i'm full of to that's what i really like because you know i can never find an armful of ups or to have something so simple as this is really nice and that means that you really can use any kind of materials that are just laying around because you can wrap it again in virtually anything that's available to you when you stop and think about all the things in the course of your day that require note for celebration for notice let's just use this pick one of those colors that you like and put it anywhere on that page and now i'm going to take that and balance it right and we are going to have you write award right there in your in life and hand your nice curly word of war and the word award you before you wrote i could see you and you did a perfect job and with a little bit of space that you had loved you just extended that letter to the orange juice it was  and now i'm going to take my hand writing and i think what i would like to do with this is handed to you as i have so enjoyed our time together learning about in life and handwriting and thank you so much for sharing so viewers if you'd like to learn more about creative handwriting and in handwriting please visit our website at new connection journal dot com and join us next time a new connection where you can tune in and grow