A higher level of consciousness that is spiritual, warm hearted and kind.  Furthermore  this is to value compassion and love.  To see this process as making us stronger, more emotionally resilient and then feel more confident.  The idea of empathy and adding it to our principled self.  The understanding for how others feel and think whether sad or angry.  To forgive others and ourselves challenges our internal critics minimising condemnation, retribution and negativing. To accept and to tolerate is proactive and open hearted and far from passive and soft.  All of these help us to develop feelings of warmth which are required for healthy recovery.  The step 2 and calling on ones higher power can help us keep our emotional principles in place.  To work with our internal healthy parent rather then go back into unhealthy script patterns and the dis-comfort of feeling like a vulnerable child.  The internalisation of this can develop growth, change and is life enhancing.  We learn that taking responsibility does not have to be full of fear