Why do some people react to technology when everyone else seems fine?

One of the most fascinating stories my Ayurveda teacher and mentor ever told me happened decades ago.

Vaidya Rama Kant Mishra grew up in a small village in India.

No electricity. No power lines. Nothing electronic.

When his father later sent him to London to see patients in the 1980s, he started feeling something in people’s pulses that he had never felt before.

The same unusual pattern.

Over and over.

He couldn’t identify it.

So he called his father back in India and described what he was feeling.

His father listened quietly.

Then he said one word:

“Lightning.”

The pulse pattern was identical to someone who had been struck by lightning.

But these patients had never been struck by lightning.

They were simply living in London.

Then it clicked.

The high-tension electrical wires running throughout the city were creating a pulse pattern that did not exist in the village where he had grown up.

Something in the environment had changed.

And it was creating a profound imbalance in their physiology, an imbalance that Vaidya could feel directly in the pulse.

He identified the pattern in London. But it was years later, working with IT professionals in the United States – people who spent their days completely immersed in technology – that he saw the full impact of what chronic exposure could do to the body.

These people were profoundly ill. Suffering in ways that didn’t have easy explanations.

And when Vaidya felt their pulses, he recognized the same pattern. Profound imbalance. The same signature his father had identified decades earlier in London.

He directed them to the beach. To bury themselves in sand – direct contact with the earth.

For generations, the lineage had used this for people struck by lightning.

The pulse pattern was the same. So the support was the same.

And it worked.

That was decades before cell phones. Before WiFi. Before the layers of wireless technology that now surround us constantly.

By the time Vaidya passed in 2017, he had watched that pulse pattern – and the suffering that came with it – grow more profound with every new layer of technology added to our environment.

What fascinates me about this story is the timing.

The pulse Vaidya was feeling in London wasn’t coming from phones.

It wasn’t coming from wireless networks.

He was feeling the effects of electrical infrastructure itself.

The power lines running through London.

That was enough to create a pulse pattern his father immediately recognized as “lightning.”

If he was seeing this pattern before cell phones even existed, and watched it deepen with every new layer of technology that followed…

What does that tell us about where we are now?

And perhaps most importantly…

Why do some people seem to notice those changes more than others?

Those are questions I’ve spent years exploring.

Today, many of the people who find me describe feeling more sensitive than they used to.

More reactive.

More easily overwhelmed by things that never bothered them before.

The part I keep coming back to is this:

Sometimes the people who notice first are telling us something important.

As a practitioner, I’ve learned that when someone is reacting to something that others seem unaffected by, the most useful question is often not:

“Is this real?”

But:

“What is this person’s body noticing?”

Sometimes sensitivity is not the problem.

Sometimes it’s information.

And learning how to listen to that information can change everything.

Sometimes the question isn’t whether two people are exposed to the same thing.

It’s why one notices it and the other doesn’t.

That’s one of the questions at the heart of my Soma Radiant™ Assessment: not just what someone is reacting to, but how their physiology is responding and why.

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I’m curious to hear your experience.

and I’m glad you’re here.

With care,

—Dr. Lisa 💙

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