Your brain runs two systems in parallel: a fast, associative, pattern-matching system, and a slower, deliberate, analytical one. Intuition largely lives in the first.
The insula — the brain region most involved in interoception — is a key player. So is the vagus nerve, the highway that carries information between body and brain. When the body feels safe, the vagus is engaged, the insula is online, and the door to intuition is open.
This is why regulation matters. It's not woo. It's neuroanatomy.