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Is the tanden the area that is sometimes referred to by Westerners as intuition? Sometimes when I have interactions with strangers or people I meet I feel either a sense of tension and stress in the tanden or a feeling of comfort and ease in the tanden or some combination of the two working....

August 3, 2012, 8:55 pmWhy would the physical tanden be the same as intuition? When you use your tanden, you feel settled in your mind and body, and from there your mind can bring forth great workings and intuition. The tanden is the center of the vegetative nervous system, and from there we can develop our state of mind.