I just read a few minutes ago about how myths are part of our personal psyches and how being in touch with our own myth can be healing. Here's a few quotes from the book, "Dreaming the Myth Onwards: New Directions in Jungian Therapy and Thought." edited by Lucy Huskinson

"Myths are personal stories that are constantly evolving, and working themselves out through us. Myth is a narrative pattern that gives significance to our existence and given that we are creatures of individuality and collectivity, 'myth' refers to both our collective and our personal stories."

"Myth is construed through imagery, but this imagery is not to be conceived as static narrative applicable for all time. Rather, it is dynamic and is continually reshaped according to the living experiences and subjective orientation of its recipient."

"Myth is the story of your own life, which is itself rooted within a collective narrative of basic human behavioural patterns. Our mythical stories are personal narrations of our psychic situations. Our complexes, transferences and countertransferences, our childhood experiences and memories, our dreams and fantasies all provide fuel for the storylines and characters of our myth."

"Myth as a narrative gives rise to new possibilities, new stories and situations, evolving in response to the old. Myth is thereby seen as a continuing life story, which is therapeutically valued in its capacity to heal and transform impotent, unworkable life experiences into ones that are productive and enriched. Myth is therapy insofar as it enables us to function according to new structures of meaning."

"The future narrative is thus a new storyline,which can replenish and overcome the failure of the old. The future narrative is the promise of a greater understanding of one's life story, which is tantamount to the ego realizing that it is not the sole actor and narrator of the story."

"Myth is a composite of reason and non-reason, of conscious and unconscious expression."

"Myth describes our understanding of life, and subsequently reveals how we might change this understanding."

"Myth, as a narrative of how we understand ourselves, must, from a Jungian perspective, include a sense of our future selves."

"By drawing out inner reality [myths] enable the person to experience greater reality in the outside world. They are roads to universals beyond one's concrete experience. It is only on the basis of such faith that the individual can genuinely accept and overcome earlier infantile deprivations without continuing to harbor resentment all through one's life. In this sense myth helps us accept our past, and we then find it opens before us our future." (my emphasis)