A metaphor for describing responsibility for our behavior to various aspects of our psyche. These may be seen as sub-personalities that have functions that take on a "life of their own"; when they have different intentions we may experience intra-personal conflict and a sense of incongruity.

As in "a part of your mind" that generates other frames of reference, these include belief frames, value frames, understanding frames, etc. When we ask, "Does any part of you object to this new way of thinking, feeling, or responding?" we are searching for "internal conflicts" within the facets of our personality and do so to create more alignment and personal congruence. In speaking about "parts," we speak metaphorically and not literally. The term "parts" functions hypnotically as a "selectional restriction violation" which in essence means we give life to an object that doesn't have life, as in "the walls speak." With the term "parts" we are referring to a certain neurology speaking as if it has a "mind" of its own separate from the rest of the nervous system which it does not.