The ultimate goal in the work of uncovering the Self is to engender harmony and confluence between an individual’s inner and outer nature, so that one’s innermost essence is expressed in the outermost elements of the personality. The rabbi, spiritual mentor or chasidic counselor helps the patient to identify, connect to and actualize this process. The very act of meeting and speaking with another person can often free a person from his emotional chaos and his entrapment in his subjective thoughts and feelings, and bring him to a broader, more rational perspective, in which he can view things objectively, and direct himself to healthier states and goals. The primary assumption is that a person is essentially whole, and has within him all the abilities necessary to fulfill his role in life. All of his problems stem from the gap between his inner and outer dimensions. No person is essentially flawed; each one already has everything within him. The main problem is that these strengths are locked within, and do not function on a conscious level.