The Hand: The Mirror of the Soul (Diagnostic and Applied Hand Reading)

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The palms of our hands serve as a detailed and fascinating roadmap that mirrors our consciousness. They tell the story of our deepest needs, strengths, hidden talents, and the areas within us that need nurturing and support. To be properly read and deciphered, this map requires knowledge.

The Hand: The Mirror of the Soul provides the reader with this knowledge. This revolutionary book offers a comprehensive, clear, and accessible survey of chirology-the art of reading hands -enriched with the values and validation of scientific research.

TALMA BRILL has over 30 years of experience in the field of chirology (hand reading) as a diagnostic tool. She is known for her book, website, the courses she offers to therapists, and her counselling meetings. Her students describe her as an inspiring teacher, and those who consult her feel strengthened and awed by her.

Talma Brill has contributed to the field of diagnostic hand reading in a unique way. She has enriched both the ancient and modern knowledge of chirology with the validation of scientific research. She conducted two scientific studies on the palms of mental patients at a university hospital and then researched the palms of people from the ultra-Orthodox sector in Israel. In all three studies, statistical evidence proved the credibility of chirology as an effective diagnostic tool.

When she isn't observing palms, you can find her meditating, practicing Chi Kong, or traveling in the East, always on a journey, both internally and externally.

During my early teens, while immersed in reading books and deeply identifying with the inner processes of the heroes, the exciting thought formed within me that people are what is most interesting in the world. I could never have imagined how this thought would eventually lead me to such an unconventional occupation. Even then, I always looked at people's hands. I distinctly remember the hands of my teachers, whose names I have long forgotten. While working as a professional chirologist, I found a notebook from when I was about sixteen or seventeen years old; in it was a short essay entitled, "The Hands." I still remember the inspiration I felt when I wrote it. In it, I describe in great detail the shapes and expressions of three different hands.

Years went by and the subject was forgotten, but when I re-encountered hand reading at a much later period in my life, my reconnection to it was immediate and passionate. Even at this early stage, while it was still a hobby, I was amazed at how precise a tool it can be to lucidly perceive human situations. Later, as my knowledge of it developed, I was deeply moved by people's feedback. There was a sense of meeting at the soul level. There were readings that filled me with deep joy and with a sense of service and profound meaning. There were also doubts and questions that awaited answers. Experience and accumulated knowledge slowly cleared my doubts and when I studied the hands of psychiatric patients at the Abarbanel Mental Health Center in Tel Aviv, and when the statistical data supported the chirological assessment, my doubts completely disappeared. Slowly, a hobby became a profession.

It was thirty-five years ago when I was first introduced to chirology. I turned to Jungian analysis when I was a young woman and mother and a fledgling psychologist. The analyst I was with requested I get a "hand test," suggesting a choice between two chirologists. Since I was curious, I made an appointment with both. Thus, within three months I was exposed to a new world of assessment.

The similarity between the two "readings" amazed me, and filled me with questions about the methods of psychological assessment that I had learned, and about the issues that revealed themselves from the lines on my hands, mirroring my inner world. After this initial experience, I ceased using the expression: "I know it like the palm of my hand." The perception of my hands-seemingly so familiar-had changed.

Years later, when my friend Talma Brill honored me with the request to read her book and write its foreword, I became aware, in retrospect, about how chirology had shifted my inner myth about the essence of man, about what is known to us and what is hidden from us, about the conscious and the unconscious levels of the psyche, about the fixed and the changing, and about psychic dynamics and development in general.

The "hand test," and the Jungian analysis that followed it, opened for me a professional and personal path which emphasized the importance of inner dialogue, as well as interpersonal dialogue. This orientation encourages a connection between opposites; it is a developmental attitude that is directed toward wholeness rather than a one- dimensional perfection.