The first book revealed the seven ways to meditate — the mind-technologies inside every practice. This one goes deeper: the seven principles that make all of them work.
Q.C. Ellis calls them the secret codes — the quiet mechanics beneath meditation that, once you can read them, change every session you’ll ever sit.
From the author of There Are Only 7 Ways to Meditate★Gold Star — The International Review of BooksAll One Planet · IntrAnaut™ Academy
What are the secret codes?
You learned the seven ways. Now uncover why they work.
Every meditation ever devised is built from just seven mind-technologies. Beneath those seven ways sit seven guiding principles — not rules, but the deep patterns that make meditation actually do what it promises.
They aren’t secret because they’re hidden away. They’re secret because almost no one names them — so most meditators feel their effects without ever knowing what to reach for. Learn to read the codes and you can diagnose a practice that isn’t landing, and steer one that is.
What each principle is — in plain language, no jargon, no religion required.
How to apply it on the cushion — and, quietly, in the rest of your life.
How the seven interlock — an ecosystem where each one deepens the others.
The path they trace — how wide, how deep, and how high a practice can go.
Distilled from 23+ years of practice and years of solitary retreat — the nuggets, gems, and insights Colin found by asking a great many questions.
A first look
The Seven Codes
Each code is a principle that underpins all seven ways to meditate — though each has a close kinship with one of them. Here they are, in brief — the book is where each one is fully decoded, with example meditations for every principle.
CODE 01
◈ Rest
No force, no control. Stop, soften, quieten toward silence. Effortless.
closest to Restful AbsorptionCODE 02
◈ Pull
What you focus on draws you in — like gravity. The object grows; absorption deepens.
closest to Engrossed AttentionCODE 03
◈ Mind
The thinking mind is a sliver of a vastness — awareness, subconscious, intuition, the superconscious, soul.
closest to Visualisation & ImaginationCODE 04
◈ Wonder
Curiosity is the modus operandi of your True Self. “I wonder if…?” Awe is the result.
closest to Question & IntrospectCODE 05
◈ Trust
Surrender to the process. Faith that the path will carry you where effort cannot.
closest to Mantra & InvocationCODE 06
◈ Bliss
Calm → peace → pleasant → joy → ecstasy. And, underneath it all, love.
closest to Authentic AttitudesCODE 07
◈ Path
The journey in three dimensions — how wide, how deep, and how high a practice can go.
closest to Intentional Awareness✦
Fully decode & expand your practice — by uncovering the depth of the 7 principles, in the book.
“When I began, almost every sentence from the monk seemed to reveal a hidden perspective. Those nuggets gave way to gems — and, in the silence of long retreats, to the secret codes.”
Q.C. Ellis — from the introduction
The book
Your essential guide to inner peace & a happy, fulfilled life
A practical companion to There Are Only 7 Ways to Meditate — read either first. Where Book One hands you the tools, the Secret Codes teach you to read what’s happening in any meditation, and what to do next.
Written for the meditator who “gets” meditation but doesn’t always get it right — and for the teacher who wants to see exactly what a student’s practice needs. Extras and guided meditations arrive alongside the reborn IntrAnaut app.
“Finally a book that helps people like me who ‘get’ meditation but just don’t ‘get it right’.”
Marianne M. — NetGalley
★★★★★
“More detail than any other book on picking up meditation — openness, teachings, and real depth.”
F. K. P. — Amazon
★★★★★
“Follow him through his own inner journey… learning to navigate the inner world with ease. Become an IntrAnaut!”
Review by an ex-Buddhist monk
Meet the author
Colin — the meditation maverick
Q.C. Ellis has studied meditation for more than 23 years, with retreats in silence and solitude that outlast some monks’. The seven codes were mapped in those long stretches of stillness.
Transformation Coach, Meditation Teacher, and founder of the IntrAnaut™ Academy — more cheeky monk than motivational speaker, and keeping it grounded in lived experience.
The 7 Secret Codes launches through the All One Planet newsletter. Join for early access, a first look at the codes, and news of the reborn IntrAnaut app — with audio meditations for each of the seven principles.
