Separating the Wheat from the Chaff

While thinking about how I could lose weight without really working at it, I came up with the idea to have a surgery that would implant a valve in the esophagus just above the stomach, so that I could switch my food between my stomach and an external pouch. This way I could let the "good for me" food go to the stomach to be processed normally and supply healthy nutrients to my body. But if I wanted to experience the taste and chewing pleasure of "junk " food, I could switch the valve to dump the chewed food into the external pouch after having the sensual pleasure of eating it.

Instead of having a surgery to restrict the size or access to the stomach or to bypass part of the gastric system, all of which can have serious side effects and ultimately require will power to eat less, this surgery should have much fewer complications and be more effective. It wouldn't require any change in eating habits, but you might want to eat more (since they are no concerns about weight gain). The enjoyment of eating would increase and be guilt-free. In addition, you would be eating healthier, since the only food you would allow to go into your GI tract would be the good food you'd eat (occasionally).

Of course, you might say this is just a more elaborate form of binging and purging, but it doesn't have the same physical and emotional trauma. You would have to empty your external pouch after binging on junk food, but this shouldn't be much more than a typical trip to the bathroom. Disposable pouches would make the job even easier!

This idea of separating the good food from the junk food can be extended to our mental life - let the good words, thoughts and beliefs flow into your memory and switch the unhealthy bad words, thoughts and beliefs to go to the waste pile, never to affect your mind. Let love flow in and ignore or forget everything else!

It may be a few more years before surgeons realize the brilliance of my proposed valve surgery for our nutritional health, but the ability to mentally switch the words and thoughts that flow into our long-term memory and our subconscious mind is available now. So give this a try - discard what you hear and what you think that does not come from love. See if your mental health doesn't improve!