The Triangle Healing is your personalized road map to better health.
Developed by Global Support for Lifestyle Medicine Institute in cooperation with Loma Linda University, USA, the map consists of three critical elements – Biological education, Experience and Whole person care. A fourth and essential element is Meaning, positioned in the center of the triangle where commitment and desire to improve your chronic health serves the ultimate goal – healthy, meaningful living.
Health Education is about learning and internalizing the laws of human biology that govern well being. When our guests begin to understand the beauty of the immutable laws of physiology which govern the work of our organs and systems of the human body, they begin to see these laws in an altogether different light – as blessings not as a curse. These health laws keep extraordinarily complex and interdependent systems together, enabling us as humans to be intelligent, creative, proactive, resilient as we are.
At Migdalia, guests learn about these laws of physiology which govern the functioning of their body. Our guests begin to see, from altogether different viewpoint, that maintaining good health is a “duty” and obligation to themselves to live a healthy lifestyle. Instead of considering that respecting these laws of good health as a sacrifice, they come to regard them as a blessing.
Migdalia guests come to understand that disease is not bad luck, and that noncompliance to these laws results in disease and its inconvenience. It is our aim that our guests see that alignment with the laws of human physiology brings blessing and is not, as they saw before, a restrain of privileges and pleasures of life.
Whole person care
When one suffers from a chronic disease it is not the damaged organ/s alone that suffer BUT the individual as a whole endures pain: organs, systems, mind, emotions, soul, spirituality. Care should be offered to all human dimensions.
For example, diabetes affects arteries in the body from the largest (aorta, coronary arteries – resulting in atherosclerosis, ischemic cardiopathy, myocardial infarction) to the smallest arteries.
When arteries are damaged, essentially all organs are affected because all need to be fueled through arteries.
In addition to physical ailments, we understand today that neurotic disorders also come into play. For example, distress diabetes which is the condition relating to patients who become more anxious after they find out they have the disease. Thus their feelings, emotions and behavior are further impaired. Hence, the mind of the diabetic patient is more vulnerable and their are at higher risk of suffering from depression or anxiety disorders than those without diabetes.
At Migdalia, guests who understand the benefit of whole person care quickly realize the need for outside help to overcome chronic habits, unhealthy behaviors, dependencies that are beyond body, and to deal with the emotional and spiritual elements that make up their whole being. Today there is a lot of research done on the area of self-control, willpower and temperance, and Migdalia is the perfect setting to provide the tools, support and structure for better well-being.
Experience – It works!
For whatever length of stay (10 days is optimal), guests experience what happens when they observe the laws of physiology and align their lifestyle to these laws “discovered” by them at Migdalia. The results are remarkable!
What is really amazing are the results which go beyond the outcome of a regular medical practice. The Healing Triangle offers the guests of Migdalia a personalized, completely unique and empowering experience with the purpose of providing value to their lives going forward!
The Triangle is a health map with the sole aim of guiding a person disoriented and lost in the jungle of theories, beliefs, corrupt systems driven by pecuniary interests of different industries (pharmaceutical, medical equipment, diagnostics, etc.) to a healthier and more fulfilling way of living.
It is understandable that guests may not remain 100% compliant with Migdalia’s program back home BUT at any time they can call upon their health map acquired during their stay and return speedily and with focus back on the “good road to health” because they already lived it first hand at the “Migdalia experience”.
It is argued that such a program is not successful after departure home, so what is the sense to participate in it? If we follow this line of white or black thinking, it is reasonable to assume that people should not start taking medication in the first place because most of them quit taking the required prescription after a couple of months. They fail on healthy upkeep because they have no prior experience to revert to for guidance!
What is learned at Migdalia has a place in the “real world” of stresses and routine back home, because guests are informed, they know about the laws of physiology, they know what is at stake when they stray from positive, healthy living, and they now have the tools to maintain this positive change. The destructive marketing of industries with pecuniary interests (food, medical, pharmaceutical) strikes precisely at this point BUT at Migdalia, it is not an all or nothing approach.
Finally, at the very center of the Triangle of Healing lies the idea of Meaning.
We thrive as human beings when we live a meaningful balanced life – social and personal – giving us reason to pursue goals, make connections, move forward and upward. Lack of meaning often results in feelings of loss of control and inability to cope with stress at any level. Widely acknowledged areas of psycho-social research which include good self-control, exercising willpower and temperance, argue that without meaning people become prone to distress (negative reactions and management of stress) and the physiology of stress (what happens in the body), incompatible with these areas.
At Migdalia our guests are given an essential Road Map to Health.
As guests set personal Health Goals, they decide how much they will use the map they have acquired at Migdalia, with the purpose of living an improved, healthy and happy lifestyle.
