The Hand Book - Neal Criscuolo and Tony Crisp
Introduction
The information given in the following pages is aimed to provide an easily understandable guide to hand analysis. Blending traditional wisdom with modern scientific findings about the lines on the palm and the shape of the hand, the book gives uncomplicated ways of analysing your own and other people's character and vitality from the hand. To this we have added a unique feature in the intuitive look at the meaning of the lines. As far as we know this has not been done before, and we believe it adds a great deal to the interesting information in the book.
If you have read other books on the hand, you may feel we have left out some of the details of hand analysis. This has been done purposely, but has been replaced by a view of the hand that helps the reader understand the areas of the hand in a manner enabling them to fill in the details themselves. Many books on the hand give so much information one has to learn it parrot fashion to gather it all in. Such books give a list of words of the qualities of an area. The present book tries to foster a sense of the underlying processes of personality and body expressed in the hand. We hope this will lead to personal insight rather than just book learning. It should also lead to an ability to actually look at a hand and have an insight into it, rather than having to forever consult the reference book.
Hand analysis is not a mysterious practice. An understanding of its art can give an accurate and interesting insight into your own and other peoples character and life. More than anything else it is an excellent way to make friends and develop meaningful conversation. Virtually everybody enjoys hearing about themselves, and having the luxury of talking openly of their own feelings, anxieties and plans.
Ancient Chinese Hand Analysis
The practice of hand analysis is thousands of years old. Used in ancient China as a means of psychological and health counselling, it later became a rather superstitious practice popularly known as palmistry. As such it was linked with fortune telling and predicting a persons future. A more rational approach is taken in this book, and analysis is based on understanding the relevance of the palmar lines and the shape of the hand. The future may certainly be indicated by the configurations of lines and hand shape, but only because a person's strengths and weaknesses predispose them to certain actions and relationships, and the results of these may recur again and again.
Gypsy Secrets Of Hand Reading
Palmistry, or the art of the Gypsy fortune-teller, is not entirely ignored however. The wonderful intuitive gift some Gypsy's have, if understood, can be used by anyone who develops the skill through practice. Therefore a chapter on the use of intuitive hand analysis is included, rationally explaining some of the Gypsy secrets. This includes techniques for recognising and developing ones own intuitive ability. It explains the various ways the human mind arrives at 'intuitive' information. It gives a technique used by Gypsy's to suddenly call on this gift when confronted by a complete stranger. These features, like the intuitive information on the lines, is we believe, unique to this book, and adds to the literature on the subject even for those who have studied the subject for many years.
Intuition Used In Researching The Book
The technique described above can be used in many different ways. The intuitive response informs us not just on other people, but can also synthesis ones vast memory of information on any given subject. The authors therefore used it to explore vague areas of hand analysis. For instance writers commenting on the line called hepatica or health line, frequently say that the traditional information is confusing and obscure. The information gained was very clear and definite. However, to make sure the reader is aware of what is traditional and what is added by the authors through their intuitive research, we have marked intuitive information as such.
The Authors
Neal Criscuolo is a computer programmer specialising in banking. He is the director of his own company, and has given service to such corporations as Citibank, Bank of Liechtenstein, Mitsubishi, TWA, etc. Neal has studied hand analysis for over eight years, independently, and with a school of Chinese palmistry. His skill is very evident when examining a client's hands.
Tony Crisp is a writer, broadcaster and therapist specialising in the area of alternative psychology. His published books include Do You Dream - Relax With Yoga - The Instant Dream Book - Mind and Movement - Dream Dictionary - Liberating The Body. The partnership is one of father and son. Neal was born Neal Crisp, but later changed his surname to his father's original family name. Neal has not previously written a book, so Tony's writing skill has been used to shape Neal's experience into a stronger written style. Tony has also added his own years of experience of writing about people and their inner life and love.
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