Kim ZollerFounder & CEO, ID360 - Everything Leadership Development

Taking Strides With Kim - Emotional Flooding

Name: Taking Strides With Kim - Emotional Flooding
Uploaded: 2022-08-25T14:58:35+00:00
Duration: 47 s
Channel: Kim Zoller
Description: Short instructional YouTube excerpt by Kim Zoller about emotional flooding in conversations. The speaker defines flooding as entering fight/flight/freeze…

25 Aug 2022 · 1 min

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Short instructional YouTube excerpt by Kim Zoller about emotional flooding in conversations. The speaker defines flooding as entering fight/flight/freeze when physiological arousal (heart rate) rises—noting a threshold above ~95 bpm—leading to narrowed cognition and reduced listening. Practical advice: take a break for about 20 minutes to recover before resuming the conversation.

Questions this video answers

Above 95 beats per minute

About 20 minutes

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Just because you're not yelling in a conversation doesn't mean that you're not going into fight, flight, or freeze. You know the last conversation you had with someone where you're starting to get, like, uptight or apprehensive, or you could feel your heart rate increasing. In fact, if our heart rate with most people increases above 95, we are going into fight, flight, or freeze. And that is called flooding. And what happens when that happens is that we literally start to not be able to see straight, and we're not thinking right, and we're certainly not hearing what they're saying. When that happens, take a break. Literally, it takes about 20 minutes to come out of that fight, flight, or freeze. So just go do something else and then come back to the conversation.