This first layer of conscience, the “valuing process”, can be perceived as the outer shell from its basic and common decisions in the daily life, which anyone can see it with a little observation. This layer acts initially as an “interface receiver of information”.
As detailed below in figure 1, any logical mental process [2] is paused or abruptly terminated when we fail to control feelings and desires in the moment by sensations on our physical body [3]. This “break” event potentially obstructs any higher project or life aspiration decisions made before, as we refer here as spirituality [1]. The same could be said about mental processes filtering our experience of the spiritual, but we will deal with this concept later.
On the “value process”, the work of Carl Rogers was used as foundation for perceiving this unit, as he describes infant valuing in proximity to “do what you fell like doing” disregarding consequences with anything related to conscious decisions [2]. This mirror the way infants responds mostly by the internal readings of their organisms, as he noted in his experiments.
As a child grows up intellectually, she diminishes this primitive animalistic behavior [3] in exchange for a well social reception and the love of her parents. But be aware: this apparently “mental breakthrough” from childhood comes with a serious catch in the form of introjections from a beneficial obedience, verified exactly in terms of animal training.
By the commands given and by compliance to the terms accorded in them, the child (or adult) performs the solicited actions, and usually implies receiving rewards of things related to the body function (food, sex, affection) and the instant acquisition of objects of interest (money, possessions, advantages) who are normally much more appealing than long term projects that require constant attention, focus and mental stability. For this change in the filters of the interface, Rogers claims the term