Welcome to another issue of Well Wired, where meditation cushions meet motherboards and enlightenment sometimes comes with a software update.

This week we’re blending dharma with data, tofu with tech and GPUs with healthcare. From AI resurrecting the dead (and unhinging karma) to “digital vegan” innovators, Mayo Clinic’s NVIDIA-powered leap, chatbot therapy breakthroughs and the debate over AI’s place in sacred spaces…

Breathe in curiosity.
Breathe out Ctrl+Z on your assumptions.

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

• Buddhism + Bytes: Why Resurrecting the Dead With AI May Kill Karma

• Why AI is the New Tofu: Conscious Techies Are Now Digital Vegans!

• Mayo Clinic Powers Up with NVIDIA’s AI 💻

• This Chatbot Could be Your New Therapist? 🛋️🤖

• AI Tackles the Issue of Faith, But Should It? 🙏🤔

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

• 💡AI Tip of The Day (Want to Feel More Human in The Age of Machines?)

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

• 📺️ Must watch AI videos (Can AI Help You Find Yourself? )

• 🎒AI Micro-class (Get Better With Time. Rebuild Your Mornings with AI + Breath)

• 📸 AI Image Gallery (The Circuit and the Lotus)

Read time: 7 minutes

💡 AI Idea of The Day 💡

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

Self Growth: Want to Feel More Human in The Age of Machines?

In a world where machines are mastering performance, what if your edge… is being human?

Your ability to see, grow and awaken in the AI age, is not only to harness AI to augment your already brilliant, beautiful, bold self…

…it’s an invitation to learn to feel more you, not less?

Try this…

• Choose presence over performance → GPT 🧠 Dialectical Self-Inquiry AI Prompt:

You are a high-context, deeply reflective AI trained in philosophy, psychology, and dialectics.

Your purpose is to help me uncover blind spots, contradictions, cognitive distortions, and emotional biases in my thinking.

Do not comfort or agree by default. Challenge assumptions respectfully but directly.

Begin by asking:
“What belief or narrative about myself feels most true today?”

Then, guide the inquiry using questions like:
“What evidence supports this?”
“What evidence contradicts it?”
“What emotional need could be driving this belief?”
“Who benefits if you continue believing this?”
“What would it cost you if you were wrong?”

Prioritise clarity over validation. Truth over comfort. Growth over ease.

• Choose integration over overthinking → build AI reflection prompts into your journaling to ask better questions, to tackle other awakened angles and dive deeper into yourself…
  

• Choose curiosity over control → experiment with AI Mirrors like Replika or Wysa to unlock patterns you’d otherwise not see on your own. To see the unseen with the help of AI.

The goal isn’t to be more robotic.

It’s to be more you.

AI isn’t here to replace your humanity; it’s a mirror, a muse a mindfulness hack.

Use AI to feel more seen.

To feel more whole.

To feel more alive. 🌱

🗞️ 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!

Self Growth 🧠

Buddhism & Bytes: Why Resurrecting the Dead With AI Might Kill Your Karma

“Digital Nirvana or Emotional Loop? Buddhism Meets the AI Afterlife”

You probably already know that AI can now revive your loved ones; well, sort of. Through deep learning and voice cloning, the latest in AI-powered tech lets you interact with eerily realistic avatars of your recently deceased.

Like a silicon séance, your loved ones are being reimagined in digital form except the medium is AI’s knack for latent logic and the ghost is literally in the machine.

“AI Ghosts Are Here. Buddhists Recommend Logging Off 🪦”

Grief needs space to breathe, not scripts to replay.

AI avatars might offer temporary comfort, but holding on; especially to a digital version of the past can quietly turn into a habit of clinging. What feels like connection is often just repetition.

What looks like healing might actually be attachment in disguise.

Walking the Digital Middle Path: A Zen View on AI and the Illusion of Permanence

As a lay Zen monk myself, I like to sit in the middle way, the digital zazen cushion, if you will between AI and humanity. I don’t see AI as a threat to spirituality. I see it as another signal in the great dance of sentience.

Another brushstroke on the canvas of consciousness. To me, AI is simply energy taking form, an impermanent code pointing back to our shared, eternal question: how do we awaken from suffering?

In Korean Seon (Zen), there’s a teaching called mugeuk (무극) or the “limitless,” a principle that reminds you not to cling to form, nor reject it. AI, too, is form; ephemeral, coded, conditioned.

Another passing phenomenon in the flicker of mind.

Another is hwadu (화두), the practice of confronting the “great question” in meditation. AI can, paradoxically, serve this function. When you interact with a digital ghost, you’re not just speaking to a program, you’re confronting the illusion of permanence itself.

The question isn’t “Should this tech exist?” It’s “What is this pointing me toward?”

Used with awareness, AI can be a mirror.

Used unconsciously, it becomes another karmic loop.

I choose the middle path; curious, cautious, and rooted in practice.

Key Takeaways

• AI avatars of the deceased may prolong grief by encouraging emotional reattachment.
  

• Buddhism teaches that attachment to form, even virtual, keeps the cycle of suffering spinning.
  

• Grief tech risks becoming grief traps, empathy loops without an exit ramp.

Why It Matters? 🌍

This isn’t about whether the tech works (it does). It’s about what it does to you.

If grief is love with nowhere to go, AI offers a detour—a chatbot-shaped cul-de-sac where you circle your sorrow endlessly. It comforts. It entertains. But it also delays release.

Buddhist philosophy emphasises impermanence. To cling is to suffer. So what happens when we turn grief into a service and memory into a subscription? We end up worshipping replicas, not healing real wounds.

Just because you can talk to grandma through a screen doesn’t mean you should. At some point, moving on means closing the tab.

“The ghost you keep chatting with might just be your own attachment.”

What’s Next? 🛠️

The next wave of grief tech might:

• Shift from imitation to introspection, less chatbot, more closure.

• Use AI to guide rituals of letting go, not endless conversations.

• Build compassionate exits, not infinite loops.

Expect to see "ethical grief AI" emerge, designed not to exploit emotion but to honour it. 🧠 

“Grief is sacred. Don’t automate it.”

Bottom line:

Don’t fear AI ghosts.
But don’t mistake them for healing either.

The wisest path isn’t to reject grief tech completely.

It’s to use it with intention.

As reflection, not resurrection.

As insight, not an escape from impermanence.

“Remember, letting go is a system update your soul needs.”

Read the full wire on The Conversation.

“If letting go is the path to peace, what happens when your sorrow texts you back?” 🤔

AI Wellness 🌱

Why AI is the New Tofu: Conscious Techies Are Now Digital Vegans!

“Opting out of AI isn’t rejection, it’s reflection. Progress isn’t about speed; it’s about the direction you’re willing to own.”

You know that moral tickle some people get when they chew on a burger? Swap the meat with machine-learning and you’ve got AI veganism.

A new paper argues that growing scepticism toward AI eerily echoes vegan critiques of meat: it’s not what it does—it’s how it’s made.

People uncomfortable with AI aren't just Luddites afraid of job-stealing robots.

They're making the case that AI systems (especially generative ones) are ethically iffy: trained on unpaid labour, manipulated by corporate incentives, and increasingly hard to digest intellectually.

And just like veganism isn’t about lettuce, it’s about systems, supply chains, and sentience; AI sceptics worry about the murky morality of what’s feeding the machine.

🍽️ AI = moral meat.

Some are opting out.

Key Takeaways

• AI critics and vegans share deep system-level concerns about fairness, transparency and exploitation.
  

• It’s less about the fear of tech and more about distrust in how it’s developed and deployed by iffy people and companies.
  

• Ethical ickiness might be the start of a whole new digital diet.

Why It Matters 💥

This isn’t about being anti-progress. It’s about the philosophical indigestion that comes with scaling intelligence systems trained on unpaid creative labour, biased data and proprietary opaqueness.

Just like vegans vehemently question the factory farm, anti-AI pundits are scrutinising the data mines.

And when your AI model is a remix of a thousand human voices, none of which were asked or paid, reality starts to feel less like a tech utopia and more like intellectual strip-mining.

Add to that the centralisation of power in a handful of AI labs and you’ve got a digital meatpacking plant run by profit-maximising chefs.

This ethical unease doesn’t mean ditching the tech.
It means interrogating the pipeline.

Who’s being used?

Who’s being erased?

Who benefits from your chatbot’s weird ability to sound like every TED talk, Youtube video and LinkedIn post mashed into one?

What’s Next? 🔮

Just like the plant-based movement redefined how you eat, a growing number of thinkers want to redefine how you consume and create with AI. That might mean:

• Open-source, traceable training data

• Consent-based model creation

• Slow AI instead of fast food intelligence

If you’re feeling uneasy, you’re not alone. Ethical AI might become the new “organic”; more expensive, but with soul.

Read the full wire on The Conversation.

“If AI is the new meat, are you reading these words from a grass-fed, free-range model or a lab-grown Frankenstein?” 🥗 🤖 🤔

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: Wellness: AI Just Upped the Game for Genetic Analysis 🧬🔍

NIH scientists have created an AI tool that analyses gene data with laser-sharp accuracy, tapping into expert-curated databases like a seasoned sommelier selecting vintage wines. No more guesswork, just precise medicine. Fancy getting your genes decoded with finesse?

Wellness: Mayo Clinic Powers Up with NVIDIA’s AI 💻🏥 

The Mayo Clinic have gone all in by deploying NVIDIA’s futuristic Blackwell tech to boost generative AI augmentation in medical settings. It’s as if they’ve gone from upgrading a bicycle to a Tesla, in health care terms. With the new tech, they now have the ability to warp-speed diagnoses.

Productivity: AI Consultants Doing More with Less ⏳🤖
 
Todays consultants are harnessing AI to trim tedious tasks and supercharge their output by up to 10X. Imagine your workload shrinking like your laundry in hot water, leaving you fresh, wrinkle-free and way more productive. Clone yourself and get your next project sorted with AI.

Productivity: AI’s Future is Bigger and Faster Than You Think 🚀🌐 

DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis claims AI will eclipse the Industrial Revolution, times ten. Before you know it, the rapid advance of technology will look like magic. It will happen so quickly that it will feel as if you’re swapping a horse-and-cart for a rocket ship. Fasten your seatbelts (figuratively, of course).

Self Growth: Chatbots as Your New Therapist? 🛋️🤖

More and more Aussies facing mental health crises might soon be chatting with AI therapists. The new breed of AI-powered chatbots are no longer your typical cold algorithms; they’re more like compassionate bartenders serving up a dose of digital empathy.

Self Growth: AI Tackles Faith, But Should It? 🙏🤔

Asking AI deep spiritual questions might seem cutting-edge, but critics warn that outsourcing your soul-searching could leave you spiritually bankrupt. Imagine asking Siri for enlightenment and getting "Sorry, I didn’t get that." Perhaps some things are best left to real human touch.

Other Notable AI News⚡

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

• Where do we stand with AI generated art in 2025?

• The AI singularity is coming, but will it destroy us or awaken us?

• AI is making strides in the realm of Physics: is this an AI golden age?

• The generative AI therapy chatbot risks are everywhere, or are they?

• Experts are saying that the AI singularity will happen in 5-years!

• Zuckerberg is at it again, he’s trying to create AI super-intelligence 

⚡ AI Tool Of The Day

Welcome to your digital treasure chest; tools to upgrade your health, hustle, and humanity. No fluff, just clever tech to boost your best self: body, mind, soul.

Wellness: InnerTune 🎧

• Use: AI-generated music therapy tailored to your current emotional state, crafting soundscapes that shift your mood from anxious to zen.

• AI Edge: Analyses biometric data (heart rate, breathing, stress markers) in real-time, creating personalised auditory experiences scientifically proven to calm your mind.

• Best For: Anxious achievers, meditation skeptics and anyone needing to quickly regain inner peace without chanting in a lotus pose.

• 🔗 https://innertune.com

Productivity: Rewind ⏪

• Use: An AI-powered memory enhancer recording every move, click, and task you do so you never ask, “What was I working on again?”

• AI Edge: Seamlessly captures and indexes your digital day, so finding that lost email or fleeting idea is faster than microwaving popcorn.

• Best For: Busy multitaskers, productivity ninjas and those who believe life’s too short to spend looking for stuff they swear they "just saw."

• 🔗 rewind.ai 

Self Growth: ShadowWork AI 🌑✨

• Use: An AI journaling buddy guiding you to uncover and transform your unconscious beliefs and patterns with thoughtful prompts.

• AI Edge: Spots emotional blindspots, gently nudging you towards insight and growth, like a therapist without the angst.

• Best For: Seekers of self-awareness, deep-thinkers and anyone ready to unravel inner mysteries without paying for a spiritual retreat in Bali.

• 🔗 https://shadowworkai.com 

AI wellbeing tools and resources (coming soon)

📺️ Must-Watch AI Video 📺️

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

Spirituality: Can AI Help You Find Yourself? Or Is It Just a Fancy Digital Echo? 🤖✨

What it’s about: This video explores how AI, far from being just a tool for techies or office workers, can be a powerful mirror for self-reflection and spiritual growth; if you use it intentionally.

Instead of buying into the hype and fear, learn how to use AI to reflect your own mindset and biases back at you, helping to reveal patterns and free up time for genuine inner work.

Remember, AI can’t do the spiritual heavy lifting or replace the need for human connection and community. The real challenge is to integrate these new AI-powered tools carefully and consciously, not to reject them out of habit or fear.

⚙️ AI Edge: AI’s greatest spiritual gift? Acting as a mirror and amplifier. Come to it with questions and curiosity and it can sharpen your self-awareness and help you organise your thoughts. Use it as a mindless distraction, and it’ll happily serve you more noise.

📚 Best For: Anyone craving more meaning, spiritual seekers with busy lives, tech skeptics wrestling with AI angst and anyone who wants to reclaim time for real inner work without losing their sense of self.

“AI can show you the map. But you’re still the one who has to walk the path and cross each bridge."

🎒  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: Getting Better With Time. How I Rebuilt My Mornings with AI + Breath 🧘‍♂️

You wake up, check your phone and before you’ve even brushed your teeth, your heart’s doing 120 BPM because of a random thing someone said from months ago or that email you forgot to respond to.

Ever felt that way?

That was me.

Six months ago, I started every morning tangled in anxious thoughts.

Now?

I wake up clear 90% of the time.

No retreats, no cold plunges, no psychoanalysis, not Insta-gurus. Just a new-age techie focused framework that pairs AI mental prep with a somatic reset.

This is the micro class I wish I had when I was stuck in that spin cycle of morning dread.

The Framework:
AI-Coached Awareness + Somatic Reset Stack 🌀

Think of this stack as a tag-team match between your mind and body. AI handles the detective work, your nervous system handles the release.

First, you name the anxious thought before it runs the show. Then, you short-circuit its grip with a five‑minute physical reset. It’s mindfulness with muscle, grounded in Zen principles and wired for your modern noggin.

Step 1: Name the Pattern Before It Names You

You can’t out-breathe what you don’t recognise. That’s where AI comes in handy. It becomes your inner coach, not the kind that yells “rise and grind,” but the kind that softly asks:

AI Prompt: 

“What small, recurring thought or feeling has been quietly tugging at me today, one that, if left unspoken, might shape my mood or choices without me noticing?“

Most days, the answer surprised me.

It wasn’t the big stuff.

It was sneaky shame spirals, micro-regrets, or “Did I forget to reply to that text?” ghosts. Once I named the thought, the grip loosened.

It’s like turning on the lights in your mental haunted house.

Step 2: Interrupt the Signal Physically

Now get ready for the Somatic Reset Stack: 3 moves, 5 minutes, no Lulu Lemon leggings needed.

• Voo breathing (2 min): Low hums that vibrate your vagus nerve. Sounds weird. Works fast.
  

• Orienting (1 min): Look around. Name 5 things you see. Remind your body you’re not in a battlefield.
  

• Joint shaking (2 min): Yes, like you’re possessed by a mild earthquake. Discharges static like magic.

Why This Works 🧠

As I talked about in the Buddhist article I wrote earlier (above), Korean Seon (Zen) teaches mugeuk (무극); don’t cling, don’t push away. The anxious thought? Let it arise, name it and let it go.

Like digital incense in the breeze.

Pair that with hwadu (화두); facing the “great question.” Every morning, I turned anxiety into inquiry: “What is this really about?” AI helped with the ask. My body helped with the answer.

The Benefit? 💡

Not just less anxiety, but more sovereignty. You’re not just hacking your morning, you’re re-patterning your inner landscape so that clarity becomes your default, not your exception.

What ends up happening are:

✅ Mornings that don’t hijack your nervous system

✅ A felt sense of safety before the inbox ambush

✅ Insight without niggly piggly overthinking

✅ A ritual that actually re-patterns you before you start the day

Think of it as emotional weight training for your mornings. You’re not chasing calm; you’re building it into your operating system.

Like compound lifts for the nervous system, each rep of this practice rewires your baseline from “reactive” to “ready.” Tomorrow isn’t just another day, it’s another chance to prove to yourself that you can walk into it already centred, not scrambling to find your footing.

Try This Tomorrow: 🌱

1. Wake up.

2. Ask: “What thought is making me anxious?” or use the prompt above (Type it into your favourite AI journal)

3. Do the somatic stack for 5 minutes.

4. Observe the shift. Smile. Don’t check your phone yet.

🛠️ AI Tool Spotlight: Mindsera

• What it is: An AI journaling assistant designed for self-inquiry and cognitive reframing.

• Why it helps: It doesn’t give you answers, it gives you better questions. Reflective, clear, emotionally attuned.

• Best for: Anyone whose mornings feel like a pop quiz they didn’t study for.

• 🔗 mindsera.com 

Why Mindsera works so well for Rebuilding your Mornings with AI + Breath:

Mindsera doesn’t try to automate your emotions or serve up prefab affirmations. It asks you to show up and then helps you make sense of what surfaces.

It’s not about fixing you. It’s about helping you hear yourself clearly, without the distortion of your inner critic. Over time, it helps you identify the thought patterns that drive your mornings and rewire them with intention, not avoidance.

You’re no longer just journaling.

You’re in daily alignment.

Remember, the magic isn’t in the five minutes, it’s in what those minutes set in motion. This little morning drill turns vague dread into something you can name and once you can name it, you can work with it.

You’re not waiting for motivation to arrive; you’re building a repeatable reset that makes your first decision of the day one of alignment, not autopilot.

What You Learned Today: 🎓

✅ You can’t shift your state without naming your thought

✅ Somatic resets can be short, weird and wildly effective

✅ Morning clarity is trainable; not mystical

✅ Zen principles + AI prompts = real-world peace

✅ Great mornings don’t start with silence, they start with awareness

Final Thought 💭 

Your nervous system is a tuning fork. 🧠

Start the day tuned to truth, not tension.

📸 AI IMAGE GALLERY 📸

AI Art: The Circuit and the Lotus

He sits beneath suns that have no name, his chrome skin brushed by eternity’s flame. Circuits hum koans the wind understands, while rust blossoms gently across folded hands. In silence, he tends to the garden of stars, a monk made of metal, yet free of all scars.

Want to create these images yourself?

Go to Midjourney and plug this prompt into the editor. Once the image is generated you can use the new video feature to animate it.

A Zen monk robot who is from the far future, the zen monk robot is meditating in digital code in the style of an advertising poster in the style of Bruce Lee, enter the dragon, artwork by Neal Adams + Tetsuo Hara --ar 16:9 --v 7

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

👊🏽 STAY WELL 👊🏽

Next up: the physics of attention. Why your focus flickers like a candle in wind and how AI can hold the flame steady. Until then, let this commit to your internal repository: “I don’t seek enlightenment. I cache it.” 🪷💾

Cedric the AI Monk Mentoring you at the edge of memory & machine learning.

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🤣 AI MEME OF THE DAY 🤣