. Personal Free Choice: With the understanding and freedom gained from the steps described above, it is now possible to make healthy choices according to our feelings and needs. Instead of repressing these, we can express them verbally, act on them or choose to suppress them for meaningful motives. Suppression is different from repression. In suppression, there is a positive acceptance of our whole reality but a conscious decision not to act for a particular reason, usually a higher motive. Emotions are spontaneous reactions that do not depend on our freedom and thus they have no moral quality; our goodness or badness does not depend on what we feel or need but results from what we decide to do with our emotions. It is at this level that a harmonious integration is possible: When aware and accepting of who we are, we decide to channel our gifts and energies towards the fulfilment of the ideals we believe in.