7 Words Concepts

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"Insight, I believe, refers to the depth of understanding that comes by setting experiences, yours and mine, familiar and exotic, new and old, side by side, learning by letting them speak to one another."

This is a system of thought centred on the idea that we can explain all of our behaviours and attitudes by categorising seven aspects of life experience represented by some of the simplest concepts available to us.

Explanation of principles

For many of us, life is beyond our understanding. It is too fast to contemplate, too complicated to understand and often emotionally overwhelming. Yet it is the practice of humans to try to grasp what it's all about, so we have created religions, scientific laws, myths, psychological frameworks, encyclopaedias and TV soap operas, all of which offer glimpses of the underlying patterns in life that show themselves in all aspects of human behaviour.

This particular system is another viewpoint; in this case a very simple way of looking at life and how we live it.The central idea of the 7 words profile is this: seven simple words are enough to codify all of life. These are among the first words we learn in childhood and yet they are not understood or used particularly well, despite their simplicity. By renewing our focus upon these key words we will simplify and deepen our attitudes to how we choose to live.

These are the words:

Properly used words are powerful and when misused, lose their power. A word is more than a conceptual symbol, it often has emotional charge and can motivate, inspire and enlighten. We can see them as archetypes - shall we say the foundation or fundamental building blocks of behaviour.

We all express all of them to some extent and usually a person is stronger in some and weaker in others - and this changes from time to time and over time yet with a marked degree of continuity.We don't want to pigeonhole characters for the sake of limiting and sorting as a form of attempted control. The opposite purpose is in fact the case. We suggest that self-honesty is a prerequisite for self-development and that development is life's meaning. Who am I? What am I? What is my life purpose?

In the final analysis there will be no way to answer such questions fully and accurately - for want of a suitable language in the very least; however, it is helpful to suggest categories in order to identify one's personal qualities.

Seven categories are enough to study personality at a very profound level - it's almost unthinkable that you will meet another person in your lifetime with exactly the same profile of strengths and weaknesses. So we can see that we are simply expressing our uniqueness in a simple codified language and as a stepping-stone towards greater self-awareness.

By choosing when and how to use these 7 words we can discover a greater potential for the development of the seven aspects of being that are present potentially in all we feel, do, and think.The purpose here is to provoke thought and to put forward a quick and easy 'rule of thumb' to help guide one towards a deeper awareness of oneself and one's life issues. The self-examination questions can highlight strengths and weaknesses in one's personal make-up.