Your Body Is Constantly Communicating with You - Are You Listening?
- Karla Mans Giroux
- Feb 18
- 7 min read
by Rohini Singh Sisodia, Certified Radical Remission Coach
Intuition as a Healing Factor in Radical Remissions
In the stories of people who experience unexpected healing, what the Radical Remission research refers to as radical remission, Intuition appears again and again in the stories of Radical Remission survivors—and that is no coincidence.
Kelly Turner’s research, based on interviews with over a thousand radical remission survivors, identifies intuition as one of the recurring healing factors. Many survivors describe an inner knowing that guided their next steps—often before medical explanations or external validation arrived. Intuition seemed to quietly lead them towards the next right step: a change in treatment, a shift in lifestyle, a deeper commitment to self-care, or a new way of living.
This raises an important question: If intuition plays such a consistent role in healing journeys, what exactly is it? And why does it matter so deeply?
Intuition: More Than a Feeling
In ancient philosophy and spiritual traditions, intuition has long been understood as a direct, embodied form of knowing through experience, awareness, and inner stillness. Many traditions describe intuition as a kind of divine intelligence within us — a quiet inner guidance that connects us to something greater than the thinking mind. When we learn to listen inwardly, intuition can feel like a natural alignment with the Universe or Source, bringing a sense of ease, clarity, and flow. Yoga philosophy describes this as inner knowing (jnana), which becomes accessible when the vrittis or mental fluctuations, quiet down and the mind becomes calm. Similarly, Buddhism speaks of intuitive wisdom (prajna) as an insight that emerges through mindful presence rather than intellectual thought. Across these traditions, intuition is seen as something we perceive when we are grounded and conscious — when the body’s subtle signals and the mind’s deeper awareness are able to speak more clearly.
Today, science is finally offering complementary explanations for what ancient wisdom has always known.
Intuition is often described as the voice of the brain’s more primitive, evolutionarily older systems — the deeper, instinctive networks involved in bodily awareness and survival — which can also support balance and healing when the nervous system is calm and regulated.
From a scientific lens, Intuition can be described as arising from older, automatic neural systems involved in emotion, memory, and survival-related processing. Intuition can be understood as the brain’s ability to integrate vast amounts of information—sensory data, past experience, emotional signals—outside of conscious awareness. This is sometimes referred to as non-conscious processing or rapid pattern recognition, where the nervous system detects subtle cues before the analytical mind has fully articulated them. This is why many people experience intuition as a “gut feeling” or an inner sense that something is right—or not right.
This connection is increasingly explained through the concept of interoception: the nervous system’s ability to perceive internal body states such as heartbeat, breath, tension, or visceral sensations. Interoception plays a key role in emotional experience, decision-making, and self-awareness. In many ways, intuition can be viewed as the subjective experience of interoceptive awareness — the mind interpreting internal physiological signals as meaningful information.
The Vagus Nerve, Polyvagal Theory and Inner Safety
Intuition is also deeply influenced by the state of the autonomic nervous system.
When the nervous system is in chronic stress, the body may operate in sympathetic activation — the fight-or-flight response. In this state, the brain prioritizes threat detection, which can make calm reflection and subtle awareness more difficult. Intuitive signals may be harder to access when overthinking, anxiety, and external stimulation dominate attention.
Healing and intuitive clarity become more available when the body shifts into parasympathetic regulation, supported largely by the vagus nerve — a major pathway connecting the brain with the heart, lungs, and digestive system. The vagus nerve is described as a key communicator within the brain–gut axis, with the majority of vagal fibers carrying sensory information from the body back to the brain. This ongoing feedback allows visceral states — including inflammation, gut activity, and internal sensations — to influence emotional and cognitive processing.
This is further supported by Polyvagal Theory, introduced by Dr. Stephen Porges, who explains intuition largely through "neuroception" as the “Sixth Sense” - describing neuroception as an unconscious process through which the nervous system continuously scans for cues of safety, danger, or threat, even before conscious awareness arises. According to Porges, these autonomic evaluations shape emotional responses, social engagement, and defensive strategies — often experienced as visceral “gut feelings.” In this view, what we often call intuition may reflect the nervous system’s rapid, embodied appraisal of environmental and internal cues, occurring beneath conscious thought.
The Body as an Intelligent Communicator
The human body is constantly sending signals. These may show up as fatigue, tension, pain, digestive shifts, emotional unease, calm, clarity, or a sense of expansion or contraction.
This communication reflects the broader mind–body connection, where physiological states and emotional experience are deeply intertwined. In healing journeys, many individuals report that their bodies seemed to guide them toward important decisions — whether through the need for rest, emotional change, lifestyle shifts, or deeper self-attunement. This is the body’s innate intelligence at work.
Moments of Clarity During My Own Healing Journey
I wasn’t consciously aware of intuition at first either. Awareness came only after I began listening and sometimes it was so strong that I simply couldn’t ignore it. During my own cancer healing journey, there were moments of such deep clarity that it felt as though this wasn’t me speaking at all. I have never had that level of clarity—but three moments stand outl:
First, when it became clear that I would have to move hospitals and seek a specialist opinion to go to the root of things. Something didn’t feel right. That decision changed everything for me.
Second, when I felt a strong inner pull to do something more than what I was already doing to change my life. I began noticing myself asking deeper, self-reflective questions and as I opened up to that process, guidance seemed to meet me in unexpected ways. Synchronicities began showing up more than I could have imagined, almost as though a path was being created for me step by step. It felt like a door had opened into something deeper — a new way of being, and a journey of transformation.
And third, when I chose to step away from everything and take a break from treatment, despite the fear and doubt. It came to me so strongly that I needed pause and space — that my body needed time to simply heal from all that it had been through. During that time, I also began exploring a more integrative approach alongside conventional care, supporting my healing in a deeper, more holistic way. That decision finally gave me the room for reflection, an inner journey, and the space to do things that brought joy back into my life.
The soul reconnects us to the body’s innate intelligence – its natural capacity to heal & restore. In stillness, when the nervous system settles, when the mind is quiet and the heart is coherent – we can perceive what the body has been trying to communicate all along.
Intuition Arises When the Thinking Mind Steps Aside
Intuition rarely comes when we’re trying to find it and it becomes difficult to access during chronic nervous system activation. However, it can suddenly appear when we’re present, embodied, and relaxed.
That’s why it comes: in stillness, in silence, when grounded, during a silent walk, while walking away from the laptop, or in dreams - when the heart is open and the body is grounded. This is the nervous system shifting out of “doing” and into “receiving.”
I noticed this myself: whenever I sat at the computer seeking words or asked an instant question, nothing came. But the moment I am doing something ordinary or in a relaxed state, like cooking, showering or walking in nature —the ideas would suddenly flow out of nowhere – the inner voice started speaking and I would be like: okay, stop… I need to write this down. It's also very common just before going to bed or waking up.
Relearning the Language of the Body and Rebuilding Trust
With so much programming that we have all gone through over time, intuition may not come naturally at first. You may need to hone it gently. Start by listening to the signals your body is giving you and notice what happens when you follow them. Some ways to begin include:
Paying attention to recurring body signals
Trusting subtle inner nudges
Noticing what brings peace versus what brings contraction
Creating moments of quiet each day
Being more present & grounded
Asking inward questions without forcing answers
Learning to trust subtle clarity over loud fear
With consistent presence, it becomes easier to recognize the language of the body and the wisdom underneath it. This is why practices such as: meditation, breathwork, silence, journaling, mindful walking, somatic awareness can support not only emotional wellbeing but physiological awareness as well.
Healing as a Guided Process
Radical Remission reminds us that healing is multidimensional. It is not only physical. It is emotional, relational, social, neurological, and deeply personal. Intuition often becomes one of the inner compasses that helps people navigate that complexity—through interoceptive awareness, nervous system regulation, and inner wisdom - guiding them towards deeper alignment with their healing needs. And, that is where healing often seems guided.
Your body is constantly communicating. The question is: Are you listening?
No one knows your body better than you do;
The body remembers through the soul and the soul speaks in stillness.
A Gentle Invitation
If you’d like to explore this deeper and learn how to reconnect with your inner guidance, I invite you to a soul journey session, which integrates evidence-informed healing principles with grounded inner inquiry, supporting you in reconnecting with your body’s innate intelligence and the wisdom that already exists within you.
Because healing is not something we do – Healing follows as we remember – sometimes through relearning what we have forgotten.
Rohini Singh Sisodia is a certified Radical Remission Coach living in Brussels, Belgium. She is the founder of RSS HEALS, a Certified Health & Wellness Coach, integrative healing practitioner, Soul Coaching® practitioner, and cancer thriver. Through coaching, mentoring, workshops, and programs, she empowers individuals affected by cancer and critical illness in exploring evidence-based lifestyle, behavioural and mind-body interventions, with a focus on resilience, quality of life, and whole-person well-being. Her holistic approach blends scientific knowledge with ancient wisdom offering integrative support from the inside out.
For upcoming events, visit https://wwsw.rssheals.com/events
References:
Craig, A. D. (2002). Interoception: the sense of the physiological condition of the body. Nature Reviews Neuroscience.
Breit, S., Kupferberg, A., Rogler, G., & Hasler, G. (2018). Vagus nerve as modulator of the brain–gut axis. Frontiers in Psychiatry.
Porges, S. W. (2011). The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological Foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-Regulation.
The views and opinions expressed in this blog are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy, position, or opinions of the Radical Remission Project. Any content provided herein is for informational purposes only and should not be interpreted as medical advice.
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