Try saying the words, "Wellness Room" to anyone and watch their face light up. It sounds great, doesn't it? It is.

With all the worrying about how AI could be scary and horrible and take away jobs, it's wonderful to find out that artificial intelligence technology is being used to improve people's health and well-being "in the built environment."

In the built environment means your indoor and outdoor living spaces. This healthy-human-and-building trend is growing rapidly. Very positive news for people who spend time in and around buildings, which is everybody.

So what is a Wellness Room?

Picture this: the fresh indoor air and water is as pure as it can be. The sounds around you, and within you, are exactly what you love. Awe-inspiring immersive audio, which can be your personal choice or various healing suggestions. Music, guided meditation, binaural beats, nature sounds, anything. (Nightly news not suggested.) Or just rest in the silence. The chair is blissfully comfy and understands your fondness for a certain temperature, vibration, and positioning. Utility bills are lowered due to automated optimization of energy use. The orchestration of your lighting, shading, and color preferences keeps you visually and inwardly happy. You could even have a state-of-the-art home theater experience.

Depending on your needs, desires, and budget, you can really go deep into the wellness wonderland and embark on a new life of optimal health. You can also start simply. For example, begin with breathing the cleanest indoor air possible, and then go from there, step by step.

Using AI technology to improve your health is also referred to as, "wellness technology solutions" or "smart home automation."

A California-based company called Global Wave Integration (GWI) is on the cutting edge of creating custom spaces that integrate smart technologies for you.

"We're integrators and designers of technology" says CEO Kyle Steele. "We can take a variety of data points relating to wellness within buildings, and then run it through our very own AI-backend to give it meaningful context and results."

If AI makes you slightly nervous, or there's just too much information to fully understand it, that's okay. You might get so relaxed in your room that you don't care, or if you do, your mind will be freshly rejuvenated.

"There's so much science and technology behind health now," explains Kyle. "We enjoy explaining the data behind it, but we're focused on the seamless integration of everything for you and the experience you inherently have. People don't need to worry about or learn all the technology on the back end unless they want to."

The sample Wellness Room in GWI's showroom is called "Imaginarium" and features an awesome array of helpful and healing options. "This is the future of wellness and health care," says globally recognized health and wellness expert Amy McDonald, owner and CEO of Under a Tree Consulting. She describes her experience in the room as "a warm hug" and was "blown away."

If you can't get to Burbank to check it out, you can get some excellent ideas on the their website. (GlobalWaveIntegration.com.)

As time marches on, who is looking forward to going into a nursing home? Anyone? That's what I thought. So you might find the "aging in place" trend to be an intriguing alternative.

Stay home and keep your freedom. You can be the master of your domain by putting technology to work on your behalf. Fortunately, GWI has a sister company called FutureCare that knows just how to do it.

"Back in 2012 my grandmother was having falls," explains Kyle. "I thought, there has got to be something out there where we can detect a fall passively, like in the environment.

"We were working on this for 10 years and it never worked until ChatGPT came out. Once we started utilizing it, 99 percent of our false-positives on falls went away. Now we truly have an accurate system to detect falls within the home. You could think of it like an alarm company that installs a security system, walks away, and now you're protected.

"After that breakthrough, we just went all in on AI and what it can do and how it can improve our lives. How can we help our loved ones have the most convenience and comfort where they can just live in place? That's been our focus."

Can you have FutureCare for health and safety and then also combine it with a Wellness Room? Absolutely. Let's see how good you can make yourself feel.

Another great breakthrough would be health insurance companies seeing the cost-benefit ratio advantages of all of this techno goodness. Similar to the realization that covering the cost of nutritious food at the Farmers Market is cheaper than bankrolling doctor visits.

The future looks bright for all wellness enthusiasts worldwide, especially with the help of AI and most of all, each other.

Special thanks to Global Wellness Institute.

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