THE SLOWDOWN BEFORE THE KNOWING

When your body has classified intel but your brain doesn't have clearance

Your intuition has been trying to reach you for days but you gave her your old email address and she doesn’t have your new number.

Meanwhile, your brain has already consulted three podcasts, one TikTok therapist, your notes app at 2:47am, and a friend who’s “really good at this stuff” but also just got back with her ex for the fourth time. You’ve made two lists. Deleted one. Remade it with different fonts. Googled “why do I feel like something’s coming but I don’t know what.” Your search history looks like a spiritual emergency in progress. (Spoiler: your body already knows. It’s just not speaking to your cortex right now because your cortex has been a real bitch about listening.)

There’s a hum beneath your sternum that doesn’t have a name yet. A slow pulse of almost-knowing that lives in your tissue before it ever becomes thought. This is information arriving in blood, not in language.

Your nervous system is running pre-conscious processing. In neuroscience terms: data has entered the …