The ability to ‘feel your body’ is related to your interoceptive sense – it is particularly well-developed in empathetic people. The acuity of our senses (which can be enhanced through training) plays an important role in subliminal influence and leadership.

Agreed, for the second part. There are subliminal ways to build trust quickly – manipulators like to use them, knowing about them is a shield against manipulation.

Yes – in principle; experiments have however shown that newborns have an intuitive grasp of gravity and of other laws of physics; intuition has an innate and a (more important) acquired dimension.

We have two, actually. Our gut microbiome, the myriads of bacteria in our intestine, is a self-organizing organism which is critical for our immune response, our emotional well-being, and it influences our behavior and decisions: gastroenterologists refer to it as our ‘second brain’; keeping your microbiome healthy is not a matter of skill, but of knowhow and a little resolve.

You are more likely to be female than male, and to be a particularly empathetic person; psychopaths, in contrast, have an impaired sense of smell.

You possess the valuable skill of ‘reading a room’ – a subliminal grasp of the collective mood in a room. It is e.g. essential in negotiations, and it can be developed through certain techniques.

This is hotly debated among the experts – fact is, leaders can adopt techniques that enhance their charismatic appeal.

This might be an illusion – research show that subliminal influence is more powerful than rational arguments; if arguments clash with the exchange of subliminal information between people, trust breaks down. Knowing about subliminal forms of communication means appreciating how to build trust, and to be overall more persuasive.

Toxic people who rise career ladders are typically smart, charming – and manipulative; some militant organizations, but equally certain corporations with little regard for ethics intentionally hire people with psychopathic traits to take advantage of their innate fearlessness, propensity for risk-taking and their lack of empathy; recognizing corporate psychopaths is essential for mental – and organizational – health.

You wouldn’t be alone with such a hope, but the wine-producing industry has not yet commissioned a scientific study to establish that connection 😊.