These choices are made because of your new connection with yourself that you have learned through the previous stages or principles. Additionally, through these stages you establish and deepen a relationship with your higher power that helps guide you through recovery and makes you believe in something greater than yourself. Yet another aid that helps you, whether it's God or anyone else, they are meant to guide and be words of wisdom. This phase is much more than achieving a daily goal as in the principle of achievement and realization, it surpasses openness to the future by creating bigger goals. You can get so much more, which really motivates you in your recovery and gives you better reasons to continue living drug-free. Be careful, because at any stage untreated pain can prevent you from achieving free will recovery. As in all phases, pain must be faced head-on, in order to fully grasp recovery and prevent subsequent relapses