The document provides advice and considerations for enjoying a healthy and fulfilling retirement. It discusses preparing emotionally and physically for retirement, maintaining health and relationships, pursuing further learning and hobbies, and accepting age-related changes gracefully through a sense of detachment and continued involvement in meaningful activities. The document emphasizes living purposefully and making the most of one's retirement through spiritual practices, healthy habits, and positive engagement with others.

1. WELCOME

2. HEALTHY AGEING Prof. V. Viswanadham

3. HONOURABLE AND PEACEFUL LIFE

4. ARE YOU READY TO RETIRE ? EMOTIONALLY ?

5. 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

6. 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

7. Do not get worried about your retirement and old age Everyone grows older We get older every day, without realizing 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

8. Plan to enjoy your retirement

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

10. 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

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

12. Economic Security Social Security

13. Physical Health Mental Health Spiritual Health

14. DECLINING HEALTH INCREASING STRESS DECREASING ABILITY TO COPE WITH CHANGES

15. 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

16. DECLINING ENERGY LEVELS INCREASING NEED FOR BEING MORE CAREFUL

17. ANAYAASENA MARANAM . . .

18. GETTING BED-RIDDEN

19. DEVELOPING DETACHMENT

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

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

22. SPIRITUAL INCLINATION IMPROVES DETACHMENT

23. STHITHA PRAJNATHVAM

24. SPIRITUAL PRACTICES IMPROVE SATWICK ATTITUDE

25. EARLY TO BED & EARLY TO RISE

26. WALKING WALKING WALKING

27. 4 FRIENDLY SUGGESTIONS THAT CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE

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

29. LET GOOD MUSIC ENSURE YOUR GOOD MOODS EVERYDAY

30. KEEP ON LEARNING NEW SKILLS & BROADEN YOUR HORIZONS

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

32. 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

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

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

35. 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

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

37. 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

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

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

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

41. IMPORTANT THINGS TO REMEMBER 3

42. SELF { SELFLESSNESS SELFISHNESS

43. SELFLESSNESS SELFISHNESS Give & Forgive Get & Forget

44. IMPROVE CORDIAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE SPOUSE

45. 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 . . .

46. . . . 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

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

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

49. YOU ARE AS OLD AS YOU THINK YOU ARE

50. UNWILLINGNESS TO BE ACTIVE IS WILLINGNESS TO GET OLD FASTER

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

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

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

54. Learning is for the young RIGHT ? or WRONG ?

55. The human body and brain were not designed to relax for long . Those that don't, decay.

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

57. DEVELOP THE ART OF GETTING OLD GRACEFULLY

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

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

60. LEARN TO ENJOY LIFE WITH A SENSE OF DETACHMENT

61. IMPROVE C = R RESPONSES RESPONSIBILITIES RELATIONSHIPS IMPROVE RELATIONSHIPS WITH SPOUSE & CHILDREN NEIGHBOURS TOO

62. 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

63. 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

64. 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.

65. 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.

66. THANK YOU A BIG THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENT LISTENING IF MOTIVATED, PLEASE PUT SOMETHING INTO PRACTICE WISH YOU ALL THE BEST FOR A HAPPY LIFE