Your body gives you signals before your mind has language for them, which is why the scan runs physical, then mental, then emotional. A good deal of stress is physical discomfort. You are a different person before and after lunch, and checking in can disarm your tension before you walk into a meeting.
The two lanes genuinely conflict. Taking notes pulls you out of sensing, which one participant found inside the first round of the drill on 17 September: you can attend to the person or you can count your own distractions, and doing both degrades the first. Pick one per conversation and know which one you picked.
In the drill itself there is one more rule. In a contemplative dyad, while they talk you say nothing at all, no advice and no fixing and no reassurance, and then you swap. Everything on the card works in any discussion; that rule belongs to the exercise.
The depth you are working at has three levels, and sensing lives at the third. Level one is imagining yourself in their shoes, which is useful and still full of your assumptions. Level two is choosing to believe them even where it contradicts what you are sure of, and the resistance you feel is the signal. Level three is hearing what they are not saying. That has its own field note, and the numbers from the drill, including the one we withdrew, are published.
On whether any of this is trainable: rational thought alone is too slow for most real situations, which is what Damasio was getting at in 1994. Kahneman is right that intuition is frequently overconfident, and Gary Klein is right that firefighters make excellent split-second calls. The difference is two conditions you can arrange, an environment regular enough to have patterns and honest feedback about when you were right.