Aspects are the various details or pieces of a problem. I like to think of an orange. Yes, when you look at it you know it is an orange, but it is made up of parts. You have the skin, the sections, the seeds, and even those juicy little bags inside the sections. Sometimes we can tap on a whole problem (the orange one) and all goes well. Sometimes we can tap on the whole problem (the orange), but then you find that there is a part of the peel left to deal with. Sometimes you can touch the part of the shell that remains and discover that there is only one of those juicy little components that are hiding underneath and that needs to be dealt with.
We have an incredible storage system within us. When you consider the incredible detail with which we remember events, facts, experiences, relationships, etc., it is truly impressive. Scientists tell us that the various details of an experience are not all stored together in one specific place in our brains. Anything related to gang camp isn’t in a file folder up there. The band camp experience is stored in our brains and throughout our bodies. Because of this, the various aspects often need to be addressed separately if their storage has protected them in some way from the original tapping sequence.
Because I believe this is such an important part of success with EFT, I want to try one more metaphor to make things clear. They are not bad. They are not good. they are simply Let’s imagine you are cooking. You have decided to make lasagna. To make that lasagna, you’ll probably need to source your cookware, measuring cups and spoons, dairy products, sauce ingredients, spices, and dry goods, all from different places within your kitchen. If you just open the fridge, you won’t have a baking pan, therefore no lasagna. If you just open the spice cabinet and take out the garlic, you won’t have any cheese or lasagna. To get everything you need to have a perfectly delicious and satisfying lasagna, you need to go to all the places where lasagna parts are stocked. The same is true for us as human beings. We may have to tap on many different parts to get the results we want.