Needles, pressure, heat, and tapping in TFT, are used to add energy at a certain point on the body. The additional energy dissolves the blockage and healing takes place. It is already known that energy created by the brain can be measured by electroencephalograph equipment. However, in addition to those forms of energy, such as beta, alpha, theta, delta, brain waves, other fields of energy are also believed to be created. Each type of thought, anger, fear, guilt, etc., is believed to generate a different frequency.
Different thoughts create their own frequency of thought energy.
Certain thought fields associated with strong emotions interrupt or cause blockages in the body's energy. These blockages of body energy result in an 'encoding' of the experience so that whenever the thought, and therefore the thought field is recreated, as in thinking about the original experience, the encoded memory is re-experienced as the unpleasant or disturbing emotion. TFT treats the emotional distress of past, present, or even future emotional pain by first having the individual call up the thought associated with the distressing emotion and then tapping on their own body at the appropriate treatment points. This added energy dissolves the blockage and creates relief. Another aspect of Thought Field Therapy recognizes that the body's energy has a polarity, a positive and negative pole, just like a battery, or the north and south poles of a magnet.