For type Seven, resting in silence helps muffle the ever-persistent, future-forward mental activity that frustrates their ability to remain content in the present moment.

In addition to our drive to build a better world, we also live in a time when productivity and impact feed the lies we believe about ourselves. The constant pressure to do more, to fill up our schedules, to work harder. But we have to stop the busyness or we will be stopped by burnout and exhaustion. Stillness teaches us restraint, and in restraint

When it comes to recognizing the truth of our own identities, most of us experience a symbolic version of blindness that keeps us from seeing ourselves for who we really are.

In the peace of inner quiet, head types can hear the truth that they have enough, refuting the lie “I am what I have” and loosening the addictive grasp that security and survival have in and through this center.

Head people believe in competency as the cure for instability. Through mastering their environment, head people think they’re able to secure their own self-preservation.

Sevens are sometimes thought to lack the ability to follow through with their initiatives. However, this may in fact be more of a resistance to feeling forced to bring closure—which limits freedom and feels like dying to the Seven.

When I awakened to the presence of masks in my life, I knew not at first what was truly me and what was a false version of me. What was a mask and what was authentic, beautiful me? Only time would tell.1

Those dominant in type Seven need to remember that their Passion of gluttony or overdoing what brings them pleasure is kept in play with their Fixation of anticipation—always thinking about what comes next after they’ve finished feasting on all that their gluttony consumes.

our path of disintegration is that innate self-survival reflex that stops our fall by reaching out to the lower-level manipulation techniques of another type as a way of getting our attention—letting us know we are falling and if we don’t catch ourselves we’ll “break our arm” or worse.