If you are working too hard now and have serious health problems from working too hard, then you should consider retiring early and slowing down. It does not matter how old you are. It does not matter how many years you have worked on a job. If you do not retire now, you can imagine living a life in a hospice care facility in the future. Is it what you want?
If you don’t work hard enough, you should work harder now to pave the way for early retirement. You want to be financially prepared for your retirement down the road. What you do now will affect your future tremendously. What goes out comes around.
When should you retire from restraining work?
Stages of growth of our physical body
From the physical health point of view, when should we retire? Should we retire when we are fifty years old, or should we retire when we are seventy years old?
Huangdi Neijing, a medical classic, contains explanations about the health and development of our life. According to the medical book, the growth and development processes of men and women are different, and men should retire later than women.
When a woman is twenty-eight years old, her muscles and bones are strong, her hair is very long, and her body is the strongest at this time. At the age of thirty-five, her Yangming meridian qi and blood begin to weaken, and her face begins to look haggard, and her hair begins to fall. At the age of forty-two, the Sanyang meridian is weak at the top, the face is all burnt, and the hair begins to turn white. At the age of forty-nine, the Ren meridian qi and blood are weak, the Taichong meridian is also weak. The menstrual cycle is exhausted, and the tunnel is blocked, so the shape is bad and child-bearing is over.
When a man is twenty-four years old, his kidney qi is average, his muscles and bones are strong, so the real teeth are born and very long. At the age of thirty-two, his muscles and bones are fully grown, plump and strong. At the age of forty, his kidney qi becomes weaker, and his teeth are gnarled. At the age of forty-eight, the upper yang-qi gradually fails, his face becomes haggard and dull, and the hair on his temples begins to turn white.
At the age of fifty-six, the Liver-qi becomes weaker, and his muscles fail to move freely. His kidneys are weaker, and his kidney essence is fewer. His kidneys become weaker, and his body becomes extremely weak. His teeth are going. His muscles and bones are disintegrating. The hair on the temples is turning white. The body is heavy. The walking is not straight. The hearing is missing.
Therefore, from the perspective of traditional herbal medicine health preservation, when a woman reaches about fifty years old and a man reaches about fifty-five years old, the various functions of the body are in a period of decline. Therefore, the retirement age of fifty years old for women and fifty-five years old for men is in line with the views of traditional herbal medicine health preservation.
However, human lifespan is constantly increasing. We used to say it is rare for a person to live to be seventy years old, but now the longest human lifespan can reach about one hundred-fifty years. Therefore, on this basis, it is also appropriate to postpone our retirement age, depending on our body constitution and our lifestyle.
If we maintain a cheerful mood (maintain an optimistic and positive attitude), maintain a healthy sex life (restrained sex life), adapt to the four seasons (accommodate seasonal climate changes), and have balanced diets and regular exercise, then we may delay our retirement based on our health status.
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