Sevens are extroverted, optimistic, versatile, and spontaneous. Playful, high-spirited, and practical, they can also misapply their many talents, becoming over-extended, scattered, and undisciplined. They constantly seek new and exciting experiences, but can become distracted and exhausted by staying on the go. They typically have problems with impatience and impulsiveness. 

 
 
Sevens exemplify the desire for freedom and variety and for exploring the many rich experiences that life offers. Sevens are the most enthusiastic, extroverted, and outgoing type. They are spontaneous and upbeat; they find life exhilarating. They are the kind of people who make ordinary life into a celebration. They seek variety and constant experience, whether it's going to a concert, talking on the phone with friends, hanging out in a bar, or leafing through magazines and daydreaming about a vacation. As their restlessness increases, they begin to fear missing out on other pleasures and experiences. They begin to lose a sense of priorities and become hyperactive, throwing themselves into constant activity-into endless busyness. They easily feel trapped or deprived, and this makes it difficult to say "no" to themselves or to deny themselves anything. Their enthusiasm and versatility can make them productive and practical, highly creative and prolific, cross-fertilizing their many areas of interest and skills. 
 

Healthy Levels of Development: Sevens will establish their presence with principled focus and resilience, leading with awareness and profound vision in the face of divisiveness, confrontation, and conflict. They have found stillness and sobriety in the ability to access the authentic self and take right action with laser focus rather than a scattered approach to avoiding pain. The need to find outlets for deflecting pain in the hopes of maintaining a false sense of freedom is transformed into a warning system for the Seven to wake up and become present. The extraordinary ability to find common ground and connections across differences with grace and consideration is truly astonishing when a Seven steps into their true self.

Average Levels of Development:  In this space Sevens are scattered and tactless, unwilling to engage authentically in any real emotional honesty, disengaged and dismissive, self-absorbed, fearful and apathetic. They become emotionally stunted; in deflecting their authentic self they are now self-seeking and uncomfortable with engaging or remaining present in any space that has conflict, and apathy is caused by the anxiety of feeling trapped. They become truly apathetic at the sheer volume of suffering in the world and feel helpless and hopeless. They may find short-lived presence and experience a calming sensation; they find a clear focus on how to engage in the work, but the fear of getting trapped and not being able to escape the pain and suffering involved in this kind of work quickly shifts them back into their deflection and evasion tactics.

Unhealthy Levels of Development: Sevens become extremely narcissistic, unstable, insensitive, cynical, vindictive, and delusional individuals who justify their actions and beliefs from the unhealthy energy of Point Seven. They often inadvertently become trapped in their self-inflicted unhappiness and pain, and feeling helpless they react impulsively and erratically to avoid any real emotional honesty. Fear, denial, and the repression of unhealed wounds are the primary motivators that distort reality, resulting in a disdain for anything that feels like a challenge to their happiness or freedom. This disconnect may trigger the Seven’s deep fear of becoming present to themselves, leading to an irresponsible pattern of acting out in panic and heedlessness, which is only masking their own unhealed wounds that they refuse to truly acknowledge.

Triggers / Biases: being forced to deal with anything difficult, challenging, or negative, having their decisions controlled by others, being misunderstood by others for the way they live their lives, missing out on an experience as a result of someone else’s actions, witnessing pain & suffering, limiting freedom, being forced to accept something without honoring choice, people who don’t allow for space/choice, controlling figures, judgmental people, forcefulness.

IDEA Challenge: The experience of being considered a person who lacks compassion, sensitivity, or consideration may be a common experience for Sevens. The aversion to suffering may lead them to sidestep true compassion and empathy, a maneuver that many find cold and heartless. This is a disconnect that can be addressed and reestablished through presence and stillness. Even if the Seven’s actions are well-intentioned, they may be unaware of the true impact of their words and behaviors when they try to remove themselves from discomfort or conflict. Navigating the challenges of the IDEA space, especially in regard to trauma around race and ethnicity, and gender and sexual diversity, can be triggering for Sevens as they generally try to avoid pain and suffering. 

Disconnects: They often experience a blindspot for emotional insensitivity and opportunities to connect through presence and stillness. A typical disconnect for Seven is dismissing others when faced with pain, suffering, trauma, or challenging situations. Fear, denial, and the repression of unhealed wounds are the primary motivators that distort reality, resulting in a disdain for anything that feels like a challenge to their happiness or freedom. This disconnect may trigger the Seven’s deep fear of becoming present to themselves, leading to an irresponsible pattern of acting out in panic and heedlessness, which is only masking their own unhealed wounds that they refuse to truly acknowledge. The callousness and detachment create a hotbed for hatred, bigotry, and bias to flourish unchecked. The “not my problem” mentality sets in and becomes the justification for the indifference they harbor towards the struggle of other humans.

Unhealthy Reaction:  avoidance, using inappropriate humor, insensitivity, cutting people out of their lives, complete denial, anger, overwhelmed exhaustion, feeling trapped causing irrational outburst, cynicism, “fight-or-flight”, insensitivity, self-centered stance, erratic mood swings, callous deflection of others humanity, when triggered they can use their unhealthy energy to dismiss, demean, and dehumanize anyone or anything that forces them to brush up against the darkness lurking inside of them, may make jokes and point out the pain of others as a way to deflect the responsibility they have to access true compassion as a decent human being

Healthy Reaction: pausing for presence, using charisma to enable others, trailblazing visionary, positivity, inability to watch others suffering forces them into action to spread joy and happiness, general ability to stay positive during tough times and see the good in any situation, connecting people across differences using their innate ability to find the good in any situation, infectious positive energy and natural tenacity to advocate for the acknowledgment of others’ pain and suffering and serve as bridge builders for people from all different backgrounds