Kespi (1988) affirms:

We can ‘take the pulses’ but only in an approximate manner.

CTM applies a therapeutic technique centered on the body, there where the unconscious mind has converted and somatized its particular psychic conflict in an organic disturbance. CTM aims to obtain neurophysiological effects at the place where the conflict has taken place, in order to achieve favourable therapeutic outcomes. CTM applies numerous therapeutic practices, aimed at developing the intuitive consciousness and organising a perceptive premise, with which the patient may respond to environmental stimuli and changes. The final aim is to go beyond the unconscious, or instinctive consciousness within the corporeal functions. CTM favours the development of “states of consciousness” which, having reached beyond instincts, sensations, emotions, may reach beyond the unconscious, instinctive states of consciousness within the corporeal functions, from which it acquires knowledge, understanding and consciousness.

Dante Alighieri once said:

Born we are not to live like brutes, but to follow virtue (consciousness) and knowledge.

In the complexity of the universe the linear temporal dynamics guarantee the order and harmony which respects nature. Individuals live their relationship of ecological equilibrium through the internal and external environment, which allows them to actively participate in the “creation” within the dynamics of the cosmos.

In this movement of transformation one can foresee an evolutive process in fieri, “below as above”.

The observation of the patient, and not of the illness, allows for the construction of a universe of elements free of the paradoxes within the circularity and knowledge. When the adaptive potential of the organism is insufficient for returning the chaotic equilibrium back to linear dynamics, there are alterations in the temporal rhythms perceptible through the examination of EC at the pulses.

The examination of the EC at the pulses offers a general panoramic vision for interpreting the initial conditions and, later, the results obtained from the therapy, in a cumulative or linear progression. The therapeutic intervention can be modulated to obtain, rapidly and without uncertainties, the re-equilibrium of the EC.

With the examination of the EC at the pulses the therapist maintains a clear and secure control over the results obtained throughout the therapeutic period.A placebo effect is excluded, as are aberrant psychic manifestations on the part of the patient. The practice of CTM requires the use of a logical thought, based on linear and diachronic patterns, and an analogical thought, based on symbolic, synchronistic models which widen the panoramic vision of analogical knowledge.

This examination always supplies all the information required to program a therapeutic intervention, with which to re-equilibrate the dynamics of the energetic circulation and bring the energetic flow back in line with the laws of energetic dynamics. These universal laws, unique for every living being, operate in accord with the system's complexity. In a condition of growing complexity, the factor responsible for the outcome of the mental process, the logic of cause-effect, is overcome by a new state of reality due to the intervention of the “chaotic dynamics”, which is a new, open, unstable relationship with the fundamental principles of the universal laws.

With the examination of the panoramic vision of the "actual" energetic dynamics, it is possible to control the problem of the “indeterminacy” inherent to the system's complexity.

With the examination of the EC at the pulses are taken into consideration a logical and analogical, causal and casual synthesis of constitutional factors, individual tendencies, personal habits, the influence of climatic factors, of functional rhythms, metabolic alterations, social communications, emotive responses, the stress of sensorial and emotive activities.

By concentrating attention on all the speculative aspects of reality are created the conditions for escaping from a unilateral logic (as occurs in Western medicine), avoiding all abstractions.

An analogical global vision of every “actual” situation, with attention concentrated on the “actual” chaotic aspects, according to the universal biophysical laws, on the circumstances surrounding the appearance of chaotic events, on the synchronicity of the chaotic dynamics which unite these events “in the flow of time”, are the basic elements of the therapist’s diagnostic observation.

During the development of the chaotic events it is possible to foresee what their conclusion will be, through an understanding of rhythmic alterations in the flow of time.

The knowledge of life and death preserves the fundamental concept that every problem originates from the lack of harmony and equilibrium in the energetic dynamics. There is a vast repetitiveness concerning all the cycles in the chaotic transformations, which give them an evolutionary, coherent rhythm at every progressive level. The change is at the same time evolutive, because its outcome never gives way to identical results, and cyclical because of the large repetitiveness present in every cycle of change. Of every situation the therapist can foresee the next developments and will adapt to their dynamics, so as to avoid moving away from the rhythms in the movements of transformation and, in this manner, conform to their rhythms, in order to “swim with the current” without losing the rhythm of the evolutive movements. One can proceed quickly or slowly, take time, repeat the harmonization manoeuvres, but it is necessary that the therapist always be guided by the results obtained, through a careful monitoring of the information obtained during the examination of the EC at the pulses.

The therapeutic act consists in working on the chaotic energetic dynamics in order to re-equilibrate it, until harmony within the linear dynamics is reached, according to nature's laws.

For understanding the information acquired through the examination of the EC at the pulses it is essential to be open minded about all the aspects of the individual's reality, in order to avoid a unilateral logical approach (Western medicine) and an empty abstraction of the individual’s world. The analogical vision of the globality of the events, concentrating attention on the chaotic aspect of the universal laws of the rhythms, makes it possible to proceed and at the same time take into consideration the change (dynamics), the actual complexity (time), the circumstances (environmental phenomenology) of every function within the individual. It is necessary to recreate the reality of the phenomenological event as it was experienced in its own inner self, where the "inside and the outside" act together:where are found the interior world, interior impulses, sentiments, thoughts, intellect, the consciousness of the self and of the world outside.

The laws of cause-effect do not govern the results of the examination of EC at the pulses: the energetic dynamism of the mind creates an open, changing (the indeterminacy factor) relationship with the principals of the unchanging universal laws.

A logical and analogical language offers the way to the knowledge of nature as well as of the individual's functions in order, and ensures an objective approach to therapy. This knowledge is very important during therapy in order to avoid any circular relationships and potential forms of self-reference originating in the therapist’s subjective knowledge.

The individual’s relationship of interaction with the internal and external world originates from the first embryonic experiences. At birth the individual possesses an intra-psychic mental level made up of experiences, emotions, fantasy and instincts. This psychism controls the mental mechanisms and supplies the basis for future postnatal experiences within the external world.

These dynamic mental processes serve for the realization of the individual phenotype and the functional characteristics of the communicational activities intercurring between the physical structure and the brain's superior activities.

The brain is equipped with an internal logical program whose role is to reassemble the various structural and functional “modules”. Within this framework exist simple and regular cerebral structures connected to each and every part of the body, all inter-connected in a continuous, typical, complementary system of communication. Other structural functions present a dependency on yet other structures, whose laterality, symmetry etc., according to the laws of chaotic dynamics, operate in a condition of instability. The interdependent nervous system, the neuronal network and the endocrine system, together govern the functional activities of the internal and external communicational systems.

In the complex biological system the concepts of time and space are united in a framework of great relational complexity. Intricate and unpredictable correlations occur between the physical and psychic patterns of the system; together they supply the material useful for a holistic understanding of the individual's reality, observed in its organization at various levels as well as in its globality.

A chaotic event can manifest surprising behavioural and organizational characteristics. Complex chaotic systems are capable of elaborating information on the current state of the cerebral or the immune systems, which becomes evident at the examination of the EC at the pulses. The energetic system of living beings is made up of mechanisms, laws, logical expressions describing the physiology and the pathology, not of the physical person but of the “phenomenon life”, which is a complex ensemble of coordinated and correlated systems.

Emotions or physical conditions, i.e. the energetic state of organs and functions, have influence upon the internal interactions programmed during the embryogenetic stage.

Through the examination of the EC at the pulses the therapist learns to know the patient in his past experiences as in his present life; hic et nunc, with the personal relationship with his intra and extra-psychic environment, habitat conditions, existential parameters. Every phenomenon, observed in the circulation of energy, must be examined according to its “state” of “normality” or “alteration”, in the changes from normality in the spatial and temporal developments. The state of normality is examined at local and global levels; it supplies all the elements required to understand the stage of transformation under way.

The examination of the EC at the pulses cannot lie because, through the differentiated behaviour of the symptoms, the information obtained is specific and without faults, thereby making it possible establish the nature of a pathology (physical or psychic), its seriousness and the best therapy for the patient's illness.

Through the examination at the pulses is obtained knowledge on the effects of the “movement” of the transformation, consequent of the chaotic events producing alterations within the energetic system's dynamics.

With this diagnosis it is possible to therapeutically influence the neurovegetative system and the activities concerning the psychic, neurological, endocrine and immune systems, in order to reintegrate the normal equilibrium of the rhythm inside the energetic system.

The therapist, through the examination of the energetic circulation at the pulses, must identify, evaluate and consider all the linear and non-linear elements of the actual reality, in order to obtain a double description of the patient's normal and pathological conditions.

Through pulsology it is also possible to observe the signals of a pathology without evident symptoms and adopt a preventive therapy. The specificity of the individual's complex system is the quality for which pulsology today gives testimony of its excellence in the study of the individual's dynamic psychic, psychopathological behaviour.

The knowledge of the “actual” dynamic state guides diagnosis and therapy and, most importantly!, leads to the development a therapeutic program which prevents additional harm to the organism.

Hence CTM's aim is not only that of treating diseases, but also of achieving the optimal state of equilibrium to ensure good health in the future. The therapist must never forget that CTM is first and foremost a preventive medicine. Prevention is an integrated part of the level of re-equilibrium within the energetic circulation. The primary task of the therapist is to “cure what is not yet sick”. “To cure the disease where it appears will protect the organ which, in the temporal dynamics, will become subject to a state of suffering”.

The therapist must see what is still invisible in order to stop the pathological processes; the therapist must walk on the path of the Tao, “the passage that maintains life”; that is, “act” on the dynamics of the material structure and, at the same time, “not act”, and in doing so respect the laws of nature.

Schatz, Larre and Rochat declare:

The great medic of Tradition acts without acting; respecting what is healthy and normalising what is pathological.

The clarity of the diagnosis and the simplicity of the therapeutic intervention are the guide to those who know the mystery of the Path of the Tao and of the 9 wonders of life.

The Tao represents the vital force which, in an evolving dynamic situation, brings the energetic dynamics along the “middle road”, or rather the right “passage” towards the Centre. At the Centre is found the equilibrium between organs and functions, between the psyche and the body, between the material structure and energy; it is the point of equilibrium between physical and psychic life, in its relationship with the internal and external environment. The Tao brings the chaotic dynamic system towards the Centre, where the living being's stable good health and vital continuity is realized. In this role, the Tao guarantees "life" within the universal cosmic order, of which the living being represents a unique model.