![]() ![]() ![]() Because they focus on excitement, enjoyment, and experiencing life without painful situations, they fear constraints or limits being placed upon them and fear losing the freedom to do what they want. Type 7’s fixation on pleasure and options results in numerous stressful preoccupations. Your Stressors: What Makes You Most Personally Reactive They also tend to focus on relative values and extremes. Because Type 7’s busy themselves by self-referencing their feelings, especially on what makes them feel good, they have an internal locus of control. ![]() As a result, they are very imaginative and action-oriented, and they focus on present pleasures or the multiple possibilities awaiting in the future. Type 7’s attention goes to interconnecting, interesting information, often connecting specific thinking (little chunks) to global thinking (big chunks). As compensation, Type 7 sometimes gain control by becoming self-oriented (acting entitled and superior to others), rejecting authority, making excuses, demeaning or trivializing negative feelings, and being impetuous and inconsiderate of others. Their ultimate concern or fear is being trapped in suffering and not able to deal with pain. Rationalization glues the structure together by helping them reframe painful or “negative” experiences in a positive way. Their attention naturally goes to positive scenarios and keeping life up. Concurrently, Type 7 develop gluttony of the mind for positive possibilities, pleasures, and future plans. Type 7s come to believe that they must escape frustration and pain, assuring a good life by instead creating alternative options, opportunities, and adventures. The original state of focused concentration (called “Holy Work” or Constancy) with an ability to travel the spectrum of life fully and freely, goes into the background in a world that Type 7s perceive as frustrating or limiting, which causes pain that needs to be avoided. Nature AND Nurture: Acquiring an Enneagram Type.Enneagram Test – Discover Your Enneagram Type ![]()
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