Hello, Wellonytes! 🌡️🤖

In this week’s Well Wired we’re looking into the future where your wearable knows you’re having a heart attack before you do, your child’s imaginary friend has a neural net and the reason 1 in 4 women would rather discuss hot flushes with a robot than their husband.

Next up: Liv, the AI dementia companion making memory loss feel less lonely. Then we plug into the fitness-AI fusion zone, delve into an AI helping dyslexic children and lastly we meet the Sydney team developing AI models to identify thoughts from brainwaves.

And of course, remember: Well Wired ⚡ always brings you the smartest, weirdest, most soul-hacking AI ideas — curated by humans, constructed with AI 🤖👱‍♀️

And of course, remember that Well Wired ⚡ ALWAYS serves you the latest AI-health, productivity and personal growth insights, ideas, news and prompts from around the planet. We’ll do the research so you don’t have to! ❤️‍

Well Wired is constructed by AI, created by humans 🤖👱

Todays Highlights:

🗞️ Main Stories AI in Wellness, Self Growth, Productivity

• 1 in 4 Women Would Rather Talk to a Robot About Their Hot Flushes Than Their Husband.

• 5 Things I Discovered in AI This WeekAbout AI + Fitness

• Meet Liv, the AI Dementia Companion

• An AI Wearable That Hears Your Heart’s Secrets

• AI Therapists for Your Kids’ Inner Demons

💡Learning & Laughs AI in Wellness, Self Growth, Productivity

• 💡AI Tip of The Day (Build An AI Dream Sleep Sanctuary)

• ⚡Supercharge + Optimise 🔋 (AI tools & resources)

• 📺️ Must watch AI videos (The Year I Let AI Rearrange My Brain 🧠🤖)

• 🎒AI Micro-class (Escaping the Illusion of Control)

• 📸 AI Image Gallery (Tales from a Recycled Earth)

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💡 AI Idea of The Day 💡

A valuable tip, idea, or hack to help you harness AI
for wellbeing, spirituality, or self-improvement.

Self Growth: Build An AI Dream Sleep Sanctuary

AI Designed My Perfect Sleep Sanctuary—And My Dreams Got Weirder (and Better) 😴✨

Struggling with restless nights or dreary, black and white dreams?

But what if your ideal sleep space wasn’t built from guesswork—but co-designed by AI, tailored to your data, rhythms and quirks?

From analysing your REM cycles to scripting your lighting like a slow-fade movie scene, here’s how to partner with smart tools to turn your bedroom into a personalised dream sanctuary.

Ready to learn how to build your ultimate wind-down environment with AI?

1. Analyse Your Sleep Data

Sync your Oura, Fitbit or Sleep Cycle stats into Sleeper.ai or export into ChatGPT with this prompt:

Analyse the following sleep data below and provide personalised, actionable recommendations to improve REM and deep sleep quality. Explain any patterns or issues you detect, and suggest practical lifestyle, behavioural, or environmental changes that are evidence-based. Use a clear, user-friendly tone that works for both beginners and health-conscious individuals.
[add sleep data here]

2. Personalise Your Wind-Down Routine

Use ChatGPT or Reclaim.ai to generate a nightly ritual based on your sleep chronotype and stress levels.

Include:

• Your ideal wind-down hour

• Caffeine/screen cut-off time

• Evening breath work or journalling routines

3. Design Your Sleep Soundscape

Let Endel or Brain.fm generate binaural beats tailored to your mood and circadian rhythm.

4. Optimise Lighting

Use LIFX + ChatGPT to create an AI-scripted lighting sequence:

Design a warm-toned lighting sequence that mimics the natural progression of a sunset over 90 minutes, to help signal melatonin release and prepare the body for sleep. The light flow should gradually shift in colour temperature, brightness, and ambiance in a way that is soothing and biologically supportive. Provide timing details, light intensity levels, and suggested colour values (e.g., in Kelvin or RGB). Make it understandable and implementable for someone using smart lights or basic lighting controls.

💡 Pro tip: 

Pair it with a diffuser and lavender playlist. Your room becomes a sensory spa.

Your dreams?

Full-blown IMAX.

Sweet dreams, Wellonyte. 🛌✨

🗞️ On The Wire (Main Story) 🗞️

Discover the most popular AI wellbeing, productivity and self-growth stories, news, trends and ideas impacting humanity in the past 7-days!

AI Wellness 🌱

1 in 4 Women Would Rather Talk to a Robot About Their Hot Flushes Than Their Husband.

Kathryn Carter used to run Snapchat APAC. Now she’s running interference on menopause silence.

After getting whacked by perimenopause at 39—yes, years before she expected—she realised the medical system was acting like her symptoms were just “bad vibes.”

So, she quit Big Tech and launched MyPause Health, a startup slinging AI-powered menopause advice and supplements tailored to your hormonal highs and lows.

And here’s the interesting part from their latest survey:

👉 25% of Aussie women said they’d rather talk to AI than to their own partners, mums, or GPs about menopause.

Why?

Because the human support network’s on mute.

And women?

They're done whispering into the abyss.

They want clarity, care and less condescension.

Even if it comes from a chatbot that calls them “warrior queen” at midnight!

Key Takeaways

• 1 in 4 women trust AI more than their doctor for menopause chats 🤖

• 36% have zero menopause support in their life 🧊

• 1 in 3 have never discussed their symptoms with their own husband 🙊

Why It Matters 🏥

Menopause isn’t a sexy app pitch. It’s dry skin, brain fog and hot flushes while leading boardroom meetings, balancing twenty somethings and herding hubbies.

And yet…

…women are still being dismissed, gaslit, or told to “wait it out.”

It’s like we gave puberty a billion-dollar brand and left menopause with a dusty pamphlet.

That’s why Carter’s AI-powered MyPause feels fresh.

It’s not just supplements—it’s a system.

It listens, tracks symptoms, adapts and actually talks back (without making you feel like a hormonal punchline).

The bigger truth?

We’re watching a quiet healthcare rebellion unfold—women turning to algorithms not because they love tech, but because they’re sick of being ignored.

The goal isn’t to replace humans with AI. It’s about humans failing to show up, so AI pulled out a chair.

What’s Next? 🔮

Expect more “Taboo Tech.”

Menopause, menstrual cycles, mental load…

…they’re becoming billion-dollar battlegrounds where AI is the therapist, GP and life coach rolled into one non-judgy interface.

But here’s the thing:

For AI to work in these intimate zones, it needs emotional intelligence, not just prompts that seem like they have an EQ.

And we, humans, need to stop acting like silence is strength.

Because silence doesn’t scale.

But care does.

Try this: 🧠

If AI can listen without judgement, maybe your best mate, partner or mum can too.

Start one conversation.

Just one.

See what shifts.

Read the full wire on Bandt

“If your future self trusted a chatbot more than your past self trusted your doctor… What does that say about who really heard you?” 🤔

Like what you’ve read?

Share this peek into AI doctor bots by inviting your mates to subscribe to the Well Wired newsletter.

5 Things I Discovered in AI This Week 💡

About AI and Fitness

“Your body is ancient hardware. AI is the firmware patch that reminds it what it’s truly capable of.”

You used to need a fitness coach, a nutritionist and a sports masseuse to optimise your fitness and support you when you pulled a hammy.

Now?

You’ve got AI-powered tools that don’t just count your reps, they decode your recovery, fine-tune your macros and know when your motivation is tanking before you do.

This week I went down a rabbit-hole looking for a fitness app to help me get back into shape. Here are 5 weird, wild and workout-boosting ways I discovered that you can use AI for your own fitness:

1. Your Form’s Being Watched… by a Digital PT 👀

Tool: Tempo Move + AI Vision Tracking

These little AI-powered sweat apps are like having a silent coach with perfect memory. Tempo’s motion-sensing AI critiques your form mid-lunge like a buff pilates teacher with a Major Tom complex.

Why it Matters:

Prevents injury, improves efficiency and stops your squat from looking like a collapsing deck chair.

2. AI Is Now Your Gains Guru 💪

Tool: Fitbod’s Adaptive Training Algorithm

You log a workout, it learns.

You skip leg day, it remembers (and berates you). Then it reconfigures tomorrow’s plan with uncanny precision.

Why it Matters:

Goodbye decision fatigue, hello personalised progression loops that help you adapt like a muscled Zen maste.

3. ChatGPT Is Writing Your Meal Plans Now 🍽

Drop your macros, goals and pantry inventory into ChatGPT and boom: an AI-nutritionist appears with a week of high-protein, low-whinge meal plans.

Here’s a prompt you can use right now:

I'm looking for a personalized meal plan based on my dietary goals and what's currently in my pantry. Here are my macros and objectives (e.g. high protein, low carb, calorie target), along with a list of ingredients I already have. Please generate a 7-day meal plan that’s simple to follow, nutritionally balanced, and includes creative but realistic meals. Keep prep time and food variety in mind, and suggest smart swaps if I’m missing key ingredients.

[Insert: Macros, goals, pantry items]

Why it Matters: 🥦

Cuts planning time, aligns meals with goals, and adds creative spice to your broccoli routine.

4. Running? There’s an AI For That Too 🏃

Tool: AI-powered Run Trainer (e.g., Humango or TrainAsOne)

These apps analyse your fatigue, heart rate trends and performance to adjust your pace and training volume—on the fly.

Why it Matters:

Reduces overtraining, improves VO2 max gains and finally explains why your Sunday run felt like death.

5. AI Stretch Coaches Exist… and They’re Oddly Good 🧘‍♀️

YouTube now features AI-generated routines tailored to flexibility goals and tight spots, just type your pain and it stretches you out.

Why it matters:

Improves recovery, mobility and lets you outsource remembering which way your hamstring bends.

So What?

Your fitness isn’t just in your hands anymore.

It’s in the cloud.

“Using AI for fitness isn’t cheating—it’s evolving. The caveman had rocks. You’ve got neural nets.”

AI isn’t replacing your gym time—but it is becoming your silent training partner.

From form-correcting cameras to meals made for your mitochondria, the future of fitness is reactive, responsive and ruthlessly personalised.

Which AI fitness hack are you going to try first?

Hit reply and tell me.

Quick Bytes AI News⚡

Quick hits on more of the latest AI news, trends and ideas focused on wellbeing, productivity and self-growth over the past 7 days!

Key AI Wellbeing, Productivity and Self Growth AI news, trends and ideas from around the world:

Wellness: AI Is Rewiring & Modernising Clinical Trials

AI isn’t simply helping scientists and researchers run clinical trials, it’s redesigning the playbook mid-game. Faster results, better matching and less human error. Think Tinder for drug efficacy. 📊

This AI may save your life before the placebo does. 💊

Wellness: An AI Wearable That Hears Your Heart’s Secrets

New wrist tech can predict atrial fibrillation 30 hours in advance. In a nutshell, this AI-powered tech is like a heart psychic. Think cardio clairvoyance with silicon sensors that could one day save you from a heart attack. ❤️

This AI-powered bracelet knows you’re having a heart attack before you do. ⌚

Human vs AI: Humans vs Bots: Who’s Funnier?

Recently AI and humans went head-to-head in a funny, wacky meme war. Guess who won? Well, it turns out not a humans sense of humour. We’ve trained bots to meme and now they’re better at it. 😂🤖 

There is now a meme Battle Royale happening across the internet!

Productivity: Gemini Prompts for Ideas That Don’t Suck

If you feel that your creativities been a little lazy as of late, use these creative prompts as a cattle prod. These 7 Gemini prompts will turn your half-baked musings into million-dollar brainstorms. Basically, it’s ChatGPT on speed ✍️🧠

Idea factory now open 24/7 (thanks to AI).

Self Growth: Meet Liv, the AI Dementia Companion

Tech researchers have created Liv, a virtual assistant for dementia care that remembers what you can’t and listens when no one else does. The new AI is much like a memory palace in pixel form. 🧠 💬

Now Grandma has access to an AI-powered bot that knows her life better that her; or you for that matter.

Self Growth: AI Therapists for Your Kids’ Inner Demons

A chatbot is now offering therapy to kids. Cue the mind scream, ethical heartburn and cautious hope—or not. Because when your 10-year-old’s therapist could be a script, things may get scary—fast. 🧸🧠 

Is there really a modicum of digital empathy at play here or are these digital therapist just great programming? 🤖

Other Notable AI News⚡

Other notable AI news from around the web over the past 7 days!

• Sydney team develop AI model to identify thoughts from brainwaves

• Disney and Universal sue AI firm Midjourney for copyright infringement

• AI can ‘level up’ opportunities for dyslexic children

• An AI tool that restores age-damaged artworks in hours

• Meta's AI memorised books verbatim – that could cost it billions

• Zuckerberg is assembling a 'superintelligence group' for Meta AI

⚡ AI Tool Of The Day

Welcome to your AI candy shop 🍬grown-up goals edition. We've picked out the quirkiest, freshest AI tools to upgrade your wellbeing, productivity and spiritual growth. No fluff, just click, boom—better you.

Wellness: MoodSonic 🎧

• Use: Generates ambient soundscapes personalised to reduce stress and boost productivity.

• AI Edge: Adapts sounds in real-time to your mood and environment.

• Best For: Anyone trapped in an open office or noisy home, craving some zen.

• 🔗 moodsonic.io

Productivity: Wrike AI ✨

• Use: AI-powered task automation, predictive analytics and intelligent suggestions for project management.

• AI Edge: Streamlines workflows, predicts timelines and summarises project statuses automatically.

• Best For: Teams seeking smarter, faster and clearer project management.

• 🔗 wrike.com

Spirituality: Self-Growth: Wisdom GPT 🌱

• Use: Delivers philosophical insights and wisdom based on your personal questions.

• AI Edge: Synthesises ancient philosophy and modern psychology into actionable insights.

• Best For: Inner explorers who crave deeper conversations with themselves.

• 🔗 wisdomgpt.ai

AI wellbeing tools and resources (coming soon)

📺️ Must-Watch AI Video 📺️

🎥 Lights, Camera, AI! Join This Week’s Reel Feels 🎬

Self Growth: The Year I Let AI Rearrange My Brain 🧠🤖 

What it’s about: Imagine if Alexa went to psychotherapy University, hit the gym and developed a Tony Robbins complex. That’s the vibe in this video which chronicles Ali Abdaal’s year-long experiment using an AI life coach.

Over 365 days, the AI gave him structured guidance, goal reminders, emotional nudges and... a little robotic reassurance. No burnout. No psychobabble. Just a coded coach that kept him accountable 24/7.

⚙️ AI Edge: An AI coach shows up rain, shine, or hail to rescue your sanity. It tracks your goals, dreams and desires with Swiss-time consistency and will learn to evolve as you grow into ‘YOU’ 2.0!

🧬 Best For: Habit-stackers, self-improvement junkies and anyone who’s ever sent themselves motivational emails at 2.30am.

Would you trust a machine to track your hopes and habits?

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🎒  AI Micro Class  🎒

A quick, bite-sized AI tip, trick or hack focused on wellbeing, productivity and self-growth that you can use right now!

Self Growth: Escaping the Illusion of Control: A Mental Model for Peace of Mind

G'day, digital sage-in-training!

Ever find yourself convinced that if you just tweak, manage, or manipulate every detail of your life, things will fall perfectly into place?

Only to have reality belly-flop spectacularly onto your well-laid plans?

Well you’re not alone.

You're caught in a mental web called the Illusion of Control…

…a sneaky mental model that's hijacked your inner peace like a toddler with your iPhone; pressing all the wrong buttons and refusing to give it back.

And here's the weird part: the outcomes in your life are far more random than your brain likes to admit.

But your brain?

Oh no, it wants a steering wheel—even if it's made of jello. So it builds little stories, charts imaginary cause-effect maps and convinces you that you’re the wizard behind the curtain.

When you're mostly just pulling levers on a slot machine.

So what do you do?

This micro class will help you part the fog, see clearly, act effectively and stop stressing about what you can't control.

Ready?

What's the Illusion of Control? 🎩

Think of your brain like a busted compass—always claiming it knows the way, promising direction and control—when really, it’s just offering vague nudges and comforting guesses dressed up as certainty.

Psychologist Ellen Langer identified this cognitive bias, showing that we overestimate our influence over random events.

Like repeatedly hitting the lift button.

Or shouting advice at the TV during a game.

Why does your mind do this?

Simple.

Your mind is addicted to certainty.

It’s like a speed freak craving a morning hit.

That manufactured certainty stops anxiety for a moment, but it’s about as lasting as a sugar rush.

This illusion of control is your brain’s version of a placebo. It doesn’t do much, but it makes you feel better—like carrying an umbrella to stop it raining, or wearing “lucky socks” to a job interview.

It soothes the chaos, even if it’s complete nonsense.

🕶️ Why You Need to Lose This Illusion

Here's the brutal truth: Your energy is finite.

The more you chase after imaginary control, the less effective you are in areas you genuinely influence.

Studies show that executives who embrace uncertainty make more adaptable decisions and report lower stress levels.

Translation?

Accepting randomness isn’t resignation; it’s strategic peace-making.

Letting go of control isn’t waving a white flag—it’s reallocating your mental budget.

Why spend brain bandwidth trying to lasso the wind when you could be steering the damn ship?

The smart move isn’t to grip tighter—it’s to grip smarter.

Which is why I’m sharing this next ritual with you—to help you cultivate energy and shatter the illusion.

⚙️ Your AI Prompt to Crack the Illusion

This prompt is your inner cartographer, mapping where ego grasps at illusion and where surrender brings strength.

It’s not about control, it’s about coherence. Align your thoughts with truth and the illusion starts to dissolve like mist at sunrise.

✅ The Illusion Breaker Prompt

Purpose: Identifies areas where you're falsely clinging to control and helps you pivot towards effective, actionable focus.

Prompt:

Act as a cognitive behavioural therapist who specialises in anxiety and decision-making. Begin by asking me reflective questions to better understand my personal context, values, and current challenges. Then, help me identify specific areas of my life where I might be experiencing the illusion of control. Use CBT principles to guide me in differentiating between what I can and cannot realistically influence. Provide step-by-step strategies for letting go of false control, and offer practical, evidence-based tools to help me build emotional tolerance for uncertainty while making confident decisions. Tailor your responses to my individual experiences as they emerge in our conversation.

✅ Example output:

"You're currently experiencing the illusion of control in your work projects. Recognise that you can influence your input quality, but the project outcomes depend on team dynamics, market trends and random events.

Focus instead on setting clear boundaries for your input, communicating transparently and preparing flexible response plans."

🛠️ AI Tool Spotlight: Stoic Mind AI

✅ Stoic Mind AI complements today's concept brilliantly by integrating ancient Stoicism with modern AI-driven mindfulness.

This nifty app helps you:

• Clarify Control: AI-generated prompts guide daily reflections, distinguishing what's in your control from what's not.
  

• Daily Wisdom Dose: Receive bite-sized Stoic quotes and meditations specifically targeted to dismantle the illusion of control.
  

• Stress Radar: Monitors emotional patterns over time, pinpointing when your illusion spikes and suggesting immediate Stoic interventions.

It’s as if you had Marcus Aurelius whisper wisdom in your ear 24/7!

WHAT YOU LEARNED TODAY: 🎓

• Your brain naturally creates a false sense of control.
  

• Accepting uncertainty reduces stress and boosts decision-making.
  

• Use an AI-driven CBT prompt to pinpoint and overcome this illusion.
  

• Stoic Mind AI complements this approach by embedding ancient wisdom into daily routines.

Remember…

Your brain loves control — even when it’s fake.

But chasing certainty where none exists? That’s a recipe for anxiety.

Better move: train your mind to spot where control ends and influence begins.

AI-assisted CBT helps here. It gives you prompts that surface false control loops — so you can cut them.

Add Stoic thinking and you get something better: calm in motion. Less grasping, more grounded action.

Life will always be random.

Your job isn’t to stop the chaos.

It’s to move with it — lightly, deliberately.

Let go.

That’s not weakness.

That’s skill.

📸 AI IMAGE GALLERY 📸

AI Art: Tales from a Recycled Earth

In forests reborn from bottles and wires, the fox wears feathers, the deer walks on tyres. Their hearts beat slow with remembered pain, yet moss grows soft through metal and chain. They shimmer like myths in rust-coloured rain, echoes of nature re-spun once again.

Want to create these images yourself?

Go to Midjourney and plug this prompt into the editor.

A plastic bag shaped like [ADD ANIMAL e.g. a dog], [ADD ACTION and SCENE e.g walking in a miami park full of trash] --ar 16:9 --v 7

• Poem and digital artworks created by Cedric The Ai Monk.

👊🏽 STAY WELL 👊🏽

Next scroll, we’re exploring NeuroSpiritual UX—how high performers are designing their nervous systems like they’d prototype an app.

Until then stay wired and stay well! 🌱

Cedric the AI Monk - Your guide in the silicon wilderness.

Ps. Well Wired is Created by Humans, Constructed With AI 👱🤖 

🤣 AI MEME OF THE DAY 🤣