蘇老師自然療法之家﹣瑜伽斷食營

這篇短文是連續參加兩次10日斷食的鍾姐的先生---張醫師為妻子重拾健康身心表達感謝的來信，原文是以英文書寫，其真摯的誠意跨越了文字的隔閡。

              本文由44期的學員如雯翻譯

親愛的蘇老師：

您好嗎? 自從上次我們在台中縣新社鄉寒舍的會面之後，已過了數個月。能夠讓將近二十位的自然療法體驗營的成員聚在一起實在是個恩典。感謝您的參與，讓這個聚會變得更有樂趣。

     健康的飲食與保持良好體態是一輩子的功課，對大多數年過四十的婦女來說，更是長期的抗戰。不幸的是，其中僅有少數人能夠成功維持令人滿意的體重。每個人都知道“少攝入一些卡洛里，並多消耗一些熱量”是所有人都適用的規則。但，說起來容易，我們根深蒂固的生活習慣卻是失敗的主因。您的斷食營提供了這些憂慮的人另一個選擇，而且我相信您數以百計的學生們已經從您的教導中受益。

     我的太太在過去十年非常努力嘗試減重，但是她的效果通常不令人滿意。年初時，有人建議她試試看您的斷食營，這燃起了她的一線希望。令人感激的，這真的成功了。她從今年四月底以來，已經參加了三次斷食營，並且我們倆人對您所做的都感到相當滿意。我想要對您在我太太身處斷食營期間所做的一切，表達我的感激之情。現在，她感到更年輕而且更健康。

我也非常感謝達爾文先生花費寶貴時間，為我太太寫了一篇很棒的文章。因為我們並不擅長電腦，且中文打字對我們來說也非常困難，而達爾文先生很好心的為我們承擔了這些額外的工作。

再次感謝您

  希望您諸事都能像往常般的順利

  敬祝  萬事如意

                        Huei-Ying Chang

看鍾姐的斷食心得

以下是張醫師來信原文

Dear Teacher Su,
  How are you doing? It has been a couple of months since last time we met at my country cottage at Hinshe, Taichung county. Being able to have almost a score of " camp members" get together was a blessing. Thank you for your attendance that has made the party a much fun one.

  Eating healthy diet and keeping good shape is a life-long job. It is a perpetual battle for most women who are over age 40. Unfortunately only a few of them can succeed in maintaining satisfactory body weight.Everybody knows that " fewer calories in and more calories out" is the rule for people to follow, but talk is cheap and our entrenched life's habits are the major causes of failure. Your camp offers those anxious people another option and I believe hundreds of your students have been benefited from your teaching.

   My wife has tried hard to reduce her weight in the past decade but the result was often unsatisfactory. There seemed a ray of hope when someone advised her to try your camp earlier this year. Thankfullu, it did work. She has joined the camp three times since the late April and both of us are very happy with your work. I would like to express my gratitude to you for everything you have done during her stay at  camp. Now she feels younger
and healthier.

   I also very much appreciated Mr. Darwin for making time to compose a great article for my wife. As we are not good at computer and it is very hard for us to type in Chinese, so it is nice for Darwin to do extrawork for us . Thank you again. Hope everything will be going as usual.


        All The Best

        Huei-Ying Chang