There are times when little or no progress is experienced when applying rounds of EFT to specific events, which begs to question why it should work so successfully in some instances and not in others. The answer can most likely be attributed to the presence of aspects.

So what are aspects? Aspects can be likened to puzzle pieces that make up an issue, different angles from which it is perceived, given shape and meaning. Now whilst you may be tapping on something specific but making little headway, it may pay to look for emerging aspects that are keeping your intensity high.


Let’s look at a ‘scary nightmare’ my son had as an example, and see how his emotional intensity dropped only once we had uncovered and neutralised vital clues/aspects that were playing a significant part.


To begin with (given that he was so troubled), we tapped on “This scary nightmare” to take the edge off his intensity. You’ve probably figured out by now that the issue was too global so he gave me a clue. There were “Scary pirates outside my school”. (Suddenly we were getting a nice specific picture, nice for the purposes of EFT but not nice in his book!).


After a few rounds of EFT I knew by his face that the intensity hadn’t diminished, so I said to him, “What was scary about the pirates?” He answered, “They looked mean and evil”. We tapped on this but still no relief. “What else was scary about the pirates?”.  “They had weapons”. We tapped on the weapons but his expression was still troubled. One by one with ‘what else’ questioning we uncovered various aspects that were holding his fear firmly in place; the pirates were going to hurt him with their weapons; they were going to kidnap him; he was going to be separated from his friends; he was going to be separated from his mum and dad.


Once we had tapped on all of the aspects (pirates, scary faces, weapons, do harm, kidnapping, separation), he yawned, smiled, said he was fine and that I could now go back to bed. And with that I did!


Caroline Crosbie

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