I really liked Jung's idea that selfhood can only be achieved by combining the spiritual and the physical. The archetype of the self is Christ the God-Man, as a symbol of the union of the spiritual and physical principles in us. When working with the psyche, one should not miss the spiritual Self, although in many areas of psychotherapy it is not customary to touch on this. I don’t encourage developing spirituality with a client, but understanding the presence of this Self, in my opinion, is fundamentally important, because it is present in the space of our relationships. By excluding it, we will not come to the self (as true integrity), we can only come to the integrity of the psychic Self. Once I lived such an interesting spiritual experience: it was a period when I lived in a monastery, I was there for about a month. That was the first time I took part in the sacraments of the church. When the service ended, I, along with other parishioners, moved towards the exit from the temple. Bells sounded on the street, and my feet seemed to be rooted to the ground, I stopped and raised my head up, I was in an unusual state for myself, as if I did not feel my physical body, I had no thoughts. There was only this ringing and the space around, which seemed to expand, and at the same time I felt such jubilation in my chest, my soul seemed to be rushing upward. It was simultaneously a feeling of one’s own soul and at the same time, as it were, its merging with all of existence. This is a feeling of connection with the source of life and at the same time this life itself is within me. I experienced this only once, but this feeling remains in my memory forever. This experience showed me the existence of this very spiritual Self. So, the feeling of one’s spiritual beginning and the feeling of one’s mental self at the same time are that integrity (in my understanding, the feeling of “I am” and the feeling of spiritual meaning at the same time) to which we all strive in our evolutionary development (even if we do not realize it) . Jung called this connection the self. What if you go into spiritual teachings and practices? If at the same time we completely reject our physical and mental nature, then such a path will not lead to selfhood, as well as psychological work without understanding the presence of the Divine part. There is another type of self-development through training, mentoring, lectures, etc. In this case, we use the mind, but the mind has nothing to do with our Self, it is very limited and it has no access to our unconscious, which essentially stores information about ourselves. You cannot speak to the unconscious in the language of the mind; the unconscious has a different language - the language of symbols. Therefore, with clients who speak only in words and only from the “head”, it is imperative to develop symbolic and sensual thinking, otherwise it will not be possible to get to the true Self (mental). In order for personality to develop, we need to connect our unconscious with conscious knowledge. But this cannot be done through the mind. Therefore, personal growth trainings only train the mind but are not the road to one’s own integrity, to a sense of self, to finding spiritual meaning. Therapeutic stories in the collection "Soulful Tales for Adults" https://www.litres.ru/book/galina-kashirova/dushevnye-skazki-dlya-vzroslyh-69813388/