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HEALTHY AGEING Prof. V. Viswanadham - Growing Old Gracefully

HONOURABLE AND PEACEFUL LIFE

ARE YOU READY TO RETIRE ? EMOTIONALLY ?

After your active life – involving important things such as your career, marriage, children, taking care of your children’s education, career and marriage and so on . . . the next most important thing your own retirement

The Retired Life : Emotional Considerations Retirement is a period of In Activities In matters of Health In terms of Relationships with family and friends In respect of Choices about where to Live In Your Outlook on life great change

Retirement is a period of

In Activities

In matters of Health

In terms of Relationships with family and friends

In respect of Choices about

where to Live

In Your Outlook on life

Do not get worried about your retirement and old age Everyone grows older We get older every day, without realizing that the future depends to a great extent on the choices you make today Right decisions with the help of proper planning, taken at the right time will assure smile and success at the time of retirement

Plan to enjoy your retirement

THE WAY YOU LIVED YOUR LIFE TILL YOU RETIRE HAS AN IMPORTANT BEARING ON YOUR RETIRED LIFE

LONG LIFE . . . Has become a distinct reality 1. Developments in Medical Science 2. Increased awareness of Healthy Life 3. Adoption of Healthy Habits ~ Food, Exercise, Yoga, Pranayama & Dhyana 4. Improved opportunities for Happy Living

Life after Retirement . . . new Issues . . . new Problems . . . new Challenges . . . new Opportunities

Economic Security Social Security

Physical Health Mental Health Spiritual Health

DECLINING HEALTH INCREASING STRESS DECREASING ABILITY TO COPE WITH CHANGES

GOOD HEALTH ~ AT ANY AGE DEPENDS ON WHAT WE EAT WHAT WE DRINK WHAT WE BREATH HOW WE EXERCISE HOW WE REST HOW WE RELAX HOW WE RECREATE IN SHORT, HOW WE LIVE

DECLINING ENERGY LEVELS INCREASING NEED FOR BEING MORE CAREFUL

ANAYAASENA MARANAM . . .

GETTING BED-RIDDEN

DEVELOPING DETACHMENT

WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG . . . YOU HAD MORE ENERGY MORE CONFIDENCE MORE INSISTENCE

NOW THAT, YOU ARE NO MORE YOUNG . . . A CHANGE IN YOUR ATTITUDE IS NECESSARY IN YOUR OWN INTEREST

SPIRITUAL INCLINATION IMPROVES DETACHMENT

STHITHA PRAJNATHVAM

SPIRITUAL PRACTICES IMPROVE SATWICK ATTITUDE

EARLY TO BED & EARLY TO RISE

WALKING WALKING WALKING

4 FRIENDLY SUGGESTIONS THAT CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE

AT LEAST 1 % OF OUR TIME TO BE INVESTED IN GOOD READING SO AS TO PREPARE OURSELVES FOR THE FUTURE

LET GOOD MUSIC ENSURE YOUR GOOD MOODS EVERYDAY

KEEP ON LEARNING NEW SKILLS & BROADEN YOUR HORIZONS

List the activities: you need not have to do you may have to do you have to do you could not do & you would now like to do With greater maturity, what new things you would like to do now

FROM BEING VERY BUSY TOWARDS LAZINESS TOWARDS LEISURE TOWARDS ENJOYING THE LIFE

You have a right to enjoy your Retirement … DON’T ALLOW ANYTHING TO DISTURB THE TRANQUILITY

Retirement Should become the best period of your life, when you can literally sit back and relax.

CONSIDER : 1. GETTING UP EARLY 2. DRINKING 4 GLASSES OF WATER, AS THE FIRST THING IN THE MORNING 3. REGULAR WALKING / EXERCISE 4. YOGASANAS, PRANAYAMA & DHYANA 18

5. EAT SPROUTS AND MORE FRUITS 6. REDUCE OILY FOOD

7. DRINK 2 GLASSES OF WATER, BEFORE FOOD; ALSO, AFTER 2 HOURS; BUT NOT WHILE TAKING FOOD 8. PREFER FOODS THAT CAN BE DIGESTED EASILY, PARTICULARLY FOR DINNER

9. LEARNING SOMETHING NEW 10. WRITING FROM MEMORY 11. HAVE SOME HOBBY, THAT WOULD MAKE YOU SWEAT 12. CHECK REGULARLY AND MAINTAIN PROPER WEIGHT

13. REDUCE SALT INTAKE 14. REDUCE SUGAR & GUD 15. REDUCE SPICEY FOOD

16. PRACTICE DOING YOUR THINGS ON YOUR OWN 17. REDUCE ANGER, IRRITATION & JEALOUSY 18. LOVE AND NOT HATRED

IMPORTANT THINGS TO REMEMBER 3

SELF { SELFLESSNESS SELFISHNESS

SELFLESSNESS SELFISHNESS Give & Forgive Get & Forget

IMPROVE CORDIAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE SPOUSE

Depression . . . Family circumstances . . . Shift from an active & busy life to leisurely life . . . Reduced regular income . . . Shifting place of residence . . . Change in the environment AVOID in spite of . . .

. . . Absence of friends . . . Away from the grown-up children . . . Decreasing immunity levels . . . Brooding over relatively small matters . . . Inability to feel happy at even small things

. . . Feeling disinterested . . . Unwillingness to do personal works . . . Inability to explain the vaccum . . . Brooding over the past . . . Feeling of isolation . . . Loss of dear ones

. . . Increasing forgetfulness . . . Feeling isolated . . . Imaginery health problems . . . Feeling that others are not interested in you . . . And so on and so on

YOU ARE AS OLD AS YOU THINK YOU ARE

UNWILLINGNESS TO BE ACTIVE IS WILLINGNESS TO GET OLD FASTER

UNWILLINGNESS TO BE ACTIVE IS BECOMING MORE UNINVOLVED, DEPENDENT & BECOMING BITTER

OLD AGE IS SECOND CHILDHOOD !!! While Children are young & dependent You are old and independent ~ this adds to unhappiness and sense of solitude

Just Think . . . Whether you are getting OLDER or getting BETTER ?

Learning is for the young RIGHT ? or WRONG ?

The human body and brain were not designed to relax for long . Those that relax long and unnecessarily, d e c a y .

DON'T BE INACTIVE DON'T BE REACTIVE BE PROACTIVE BE RESPONSIVE BE ACTIVE

DEVELOP THE ART OF GETTING OLD GRACEFULLY

CONSIDER : READING ELEVATING LITERATURE SOLVING CROSSWORD PUZZLES, PLAYING CHESS, SU-DOKU Etc. GETTING INVOLVED IN RELIGIOUS, SPIRITUAL & PHILONTHROPIC ACTIVITIES How about COMPUTERS ?

Control the tendency to give u n s o l i c i t e d a d v i c e

LEARN TO ENJOY LIFE WITH A SENSE OF DETACHMENT

IMPROVE C = R RESPONSES RESPONSIBILITIES RELATIONSHIPS IMPROVE RELATIONSHIPS WITH SPOUSE & CHILDREN NEIGHBOURS TOO HOW ABOUT GOD ?

W. A. T. C. H. W = WORDS A = ACTIONS T = THOUGHTS C = CHARACTER H = HEAD & HEART

BE PREPARED FOR : . . . for being treated as low priority . . . for being asked to perform small tasks . . . for being considered a source of money . . . for acquiring greater emotional maturity . . . for facing the realities of generation gaps, particularly with grandchildren 9 THINGS

BE PREPARED FOR : 9 THINGS . . . for giving advice, only when asked . . . for reconsidering expenditure pattern, . . . for becoming increasingly self-reliant . . . for increasing mental, physical & spiritual activity

Love is so caring… People have to see themselves as part of a relay team. Your job is to get the baton into the hands of the next person and get off the track. If you think this way, Retirement is a very natural, peaceful process.

THE PURPOSE OF TODAY The Purpose of Today is to Create Great Memories for Tomorrow, for Ourselves, for Others. Everyday Spent Doing that Doubles the Value of our Lives.

The Purpose of Today is to Create Great Memories

for Tomorrow,

for Ourselves,

for Others.

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