Life-values are perhaps best described, as a particular value that we trust a certain task will bring to our life. In other words, what will add valued meaning or spiritual quality to our life experience, over and above any material gain.
This subject has received little attention from academia in the past. Our understanding of consciousness has suffered immeasurably! The importance of choosing life-values is inestimable; greater than anything presently taught in religion, philosophy, psychology, or any human science, I submit.
We’re all taught that we cannot control our subconscious mind, and this is true, so most folks are stopped in their tracks. Instead, we should learn that while we cannot control its process, we can most assuredly influence its value content, its reference base, exactly as nutritious food aids bodily health.
Life-values are the means for influencing or programming our subconscious mind. Indeed, they constitute the program that is our subconscious mind.
Free will is the overseer of life-values
Unless we deliberately implant values in our subconscious mind, they will be garnered without our knowing. So it is wise to be cautious. Subconscious mind accepts as value, what we wilfully nominate to be of value. Any life-value, whether consciously assigned, or automatically assimilated by the subconscious mind, once accepted, will remain firm until replaced by another that overrides its life-value importance. In short, past values remain until substituted, despite their length of stay.
Subconscious mind cannot work in a vacuum, just as an empty stomach cannot process food. Things, objects, events, and circumstances that we most prize, are perceived by subconscious mind as representing our values. When we seek those goals over and over; when we strive for them repeatedly, subconscious mind accepts them as prized above all else. What else could it conclude? Actions speak louder than words.
This holds true for values taken on board during childhood, from past exhilarating or traumatic experiences, from the work environment, marriage experiences or spiritual journeys. Unless we have deliberately chosen what is of worth to our life, so for any given moment, subconscious mind will fill the vacuum with prior accepted values correlating the experience of that moment. Day to day emotions and feelings will then reflect those values.
There lies potential danger. By focussing our minds solely on material outcomes, we may easily overlook the spiritual component that properly should be attached.