How one 'layer' affects the next, and the next...

This layered structure implies that the first layers (our earliest emotional learnings) also shape our lives. So, these earliest learnings will affect our subsequent learnings as well. Therefore subsequent learnings will always reflect – to some degree – the earlier emotional experiences, even back to those from the preverbal era.

The same applies to our physical and intellectual development. We learn how to dance after we learn to balance and walk, constantly developing from our earlier learnings, or how we improve our speech in a similar way.

So you are a product of your on-going, accumulated learnings in your life. Where all these learnings are affected by the previous, and affecting the next.