Recalibration Code Guided Sessions
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Each Session Overview is recorded if you want to listen to it. It will be the same or similar to the book. Any changes will always be an improvement and eventually make their way into the book. The “After the session” part from each chapter is also recorded and will be under the main guided session below.
Chapter 4 – Crew
1. Start here
SESSION OVERVIEW
This is the foundational session of the book. Every session that follows returns to this space. The library, the stairs, the display stand — these are the permanent architecture of the work. Each time you return, you’ll arrive more quickly, go more deeply, and find the space more readily available. This is where it starts.
In this session, you will descend ten steps to Dai’s library, meet Charlie and Dai in the space where they live and function, and choose one book from the display stand to place at the front — where the light is brightest, where it’s the easiest thing to reach. That is the whole session. It is more than enough to start.
Estimated total time: 22–26 minutes (6–8 minutes written, 16–18 minutes audio).
2. Then answer the questions…
These questions are about both versions of Charlie and Dai — the activated and the settled. You need both to use this framework properly. The session will bring them into focus, but the clearer your starting images, the more vivid the encounter.
Work through these in order. Don’t rush the middle questions. They’re the ones that matter most.
Q1 Describe your Charlie when activated. What does he or she look like when the alarm is going off — when the threat response is fully fired? What creature, character, or presence captures that energy? Be specific. The more clearly you can picture activated Charlie, the less alarming it is when that version arrives uninvited.
Q2 Now describe settled Charlie. Same character — but when everything is fine. When you’re safe, at ease, in flow, completely yourself. What does Charlie look like when there’s nothing to protect against and the job is done? This is the version that becomes your anchor. Spend time here. Let it feel real.
Q3 Describe your Dai when activated — when he’s presenting an old pattern with urgency and certainty. This isn’t necessarily frightening; it might just be insistent. What does Dai look like in that moment? What’s the quality of his presence when he’s pulling the well-worn book from the shelf and pressing it into your hands?
Q4 And settled Dai. In a genuine flow state — when you’re at your best, connected, completely yourself. What does Dai look like when the library is working exactly as it should? This is Dai in his full vastness, holding both your history and your potential. What does it feel like to be near that?
Q5 Think of one quality you want to be more readily available to you. Not a goal — a quality. Calm under pressure. The ability to listen before responding. Ease in your own company. Genuine warmth without effort. Name it, and hold it as you listen. This is what you’ll be placing on the display stand.
Before you start the audio, take a moment to find the settled versions of both Charlie and Dai in your mind. Hold them there — both of them, calm, at ease, alongside you. Notice what that feels like. That is the state you are building towards. And it is already available to you.
3. Now Listen to the Guided Session
4. And the Ending
Take a longer moment than usual before you move. This session covered more ground than the previous two.
If Charlie or Dai arrived with a specific appearance — if an image came that felt unmistakably right — write it down now, before the clarity fades. The subconscious has cast the role. Trust it completely, however surprising or random it seems. Your partner’s Dai is a robot. Mine is a large, colourful monster who looks alarmingly cheerful. Neither of us chose those images consciously. Both of them work, every single time.
If neither arrived with a specific form — if it was more felt than seen, more sensed than pictured — that is equally valid. Some people’s Charlie is a sensation rather than a shape. Some people’s Dai is a quality of presence rather than a figure. The session works either way. The relationship is what matters, not the image.
Write down the book you placed on the stand. What it represented. What placing it there felt like. The moment of Dai receiving it was real. It is now part of the library.
You will return to this space in every session that follows. Each time you descend those stairs, the arrival will come faster, the depth will be greater, the library will feel more familiar. Charlie and Dai will become clearer. And the display stand will shift — gradually, session by session — as the patterns you’re building take their place at the front.
That process has already begun.
PS, Don’t forget to create and write down your Anchor Word for this session. Sit with it and think about how it felt to be calm, safe and welcome in that space. You’ll be using that word a lot.
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