The Data Told Her Nothing Was Wrong

Hi Reader

A few weeks ago a client showed me her ring. Sleep score, recovery score, readiness score, all green. She felt terrible. Wired, foggy, like her body was running a marathon while she sat at her desk.

She kept asking me what was wrong with the numbers. Nothing was wrong with the numbers. They were just measuring the wrong thing.

This is something I talked about properly on the podcast this week (link below) — what I've started calling the wearable paradox. The devices we wear were built on male physiological standards, and they're very good at telling you what happened. Heart rate, recovery, sleep stages. What they can't tell you is what it felt like to be in your body while it was happening. The tightness in your jaw on that call. The way you stopped breathing properly an hour before lunch. The bracing you didn't know you were doing until someone pointed at your shoulders and asked when they'd last dropped.

I see this constantly with the women I work with, and it's the same thing I noticed in Emma's story a few weeks back, the floating head. Always managing, thinking, producing, with very little connection between what the mind is doing and what the body is carrying because of it. A green readiness score doesn't know about that gap. It can't. It wasn't built to.

The data isn't the enemy here. It's just incomplete on its own. What it's missing is you, actually checking in with your own physical signals before you trust the number on the screen. That's not woo, it's just the other half of the information.

If you wear a tracker, this week try something small. Before you look at the score each morning, ask your body first. Jaw, shoulders, chest, stomach. Thirty seconds. Then check the number and see if they agree.

If you want the full conversation on this, I go into it properly on the podcast, link below. Also you can book your free somatic audit herewhere we can talk about where your body is holding you back.

Seema

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#9 The Wearable Paradox: Why... Jun 24 · The Active Shakti Podcas... 13:09   ​