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When is it correct to use “yourself” and “myself” (versus “you” and “me”)?

Are both It's ideal for you and It's ideal for yourselves grammatically correct? If not, why certain persons use 'you' while other ones use 'yourselves'?

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    Can you provide more context, especially for your second example since you have seen it used? For you is absolutely correct in general. – cornbread ninja 麵包忍者 Mar 23 '12 at 21:06
  • Many people use English reflexives as a way of sounding more formal, non-threatening, official, or deferential than a regular personal pronoun. Longer words sound more impressive, other things being equal. And words that are inflected funny, and practically incapable of being used correctly, like whom, whichsoever, or yourselves are the most impressive of all. So phrases like a person like yourself, instead of a person like you, are supposed to be impressive. – John Lawler Mar 23 '12 at 21:22
  • @combread ninja: 'yourselves', for example, is largely used in real estate language. Best regards, Carlo.- –  Mar 23 '12 at 21:32

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