We’ve piggybacked on the discussions happening around the web in respect to mobile health. And certainly, there’s a lot that’s being discussed in respect to using mobile devices and services at the point of diagnosis and prevention. However, one of the aspects of mobile health that we’ve rarely talked about is the idea of wellness.

Wellness, or your state of physical, mental, and spiritual health is sometimes passed off as an area that only “new age spiritualists” think about, but I think that we’d be missing a bit about “carrying for this temple” if we didn’t highlight it in part.

This hits home a good bit for me because as I love to get out on my bicycle, I find that I’ve not nearly ridden as much in my time in a rural area as I have in urban areas, despite the lack of traffic. To wit, I’ve not felt as good physically and mentally as I know that I can be. To the point, right before sitting to pen this, I logged (on my mobile using Sports Tracker) a ride where I wen’t 13.5 miles in about 1hr 5min. Last fall, I was doing 17 miles in that same amount of time. Physically, that’s a problem, and I know its effected me mentally and spiritually.

There are applications like Nokia’s Wellness Diary that go beyond looking at a workout regime, but will also help you recognize sleeping and eating patterns so that you can make adjustments to your lifestyle to improve not just your quality of life, but also how you are able to respond to change all around you.

So, let’s open the discussion on mobile wellness by looking at what you do to keep yourself on track whether with specific mobile software to guide you or a service that helps you track. Let’s spur one another not just towards preaching the Gospel with words, but having the wholeness of life that lives it as well.