Red Zone vs Blue Zone

And so nowadays, fight flight, everybody knows that everybody is somewhat aware of what happens when the body's in that state. It's not a bad state. It's certainly something that our body uses to be able to say, hey, wake up, be alert, you've got to navigate this particular thing. But what also happens, as we know, is that there's a lot of blood flow that gets sent out to our big muscle groups, our arms, our legs, etc. To be able to do that evolutionary response of fighting or flighting. And so if you wanna just check that list on the left there of some of the things, the resources and all that sort of get declined, diminished, or disappear when we're in that state, they're significant things like your immune system, your digestive system, your reproductive system is impacted when there's a lot of cortisol floating through your system On an extended regular basis. Conversely, in the blue zone, that's that state where we are self-regulated. We're not asleep, but we can be calm. We can be alert. We can be curious. And there's a lot of extra activity and resources that go back to the prefrontal cortex and that really impact our vagal tone. There are certain neurochemicals that are present that support our ability to actually learn. Remember, focus our attention. And so that's that blue zone state that we really wanna be sure to be in as much as possible when we're coaching.