Thomas Louies

Bangalore: Vedic scholars, Greek philosophers and savants of more recent times have all explained the close relationship between the state of one's mind and body. Simply put, a person with a more positive outlook towards life is either free from serious ailments or gets cured faster if he or she falls ill.

Taking to yoga

Taking this concept further in his workshops for corporates is Ay.Thomas Louies, director of the Bangalore-based Morpho Thinkers. "I was just like any other boy in a railway officer's family... a few years in different schools in different regions. By the time I was in the fifth class, I began practising yoga postures without fully understanding what they were. Only when I was in tenth class, I realised what yoga was and went through formal yoga training," he recalls.

Towards philosophy

Yoga perhaps turned his thoughts towards philosophy but the interests in things spiritual had to lie dormant for some more years to come. "I completed my B.Tech and then MBA and began working on the marketing side for a multi-national firm. It was some years later that I began speaking about my ideas about the mind dominating the body and how the mind can be controlled better and channelised in positive ways.

Controlled sleep

Mr. Louies believes that "alpha waves" can dominate the mind and bring one to a state of "controlled sleep", but very much awake.

"When alpha waves dominate, a person becomes more creative, more productive and less stressful.. a marketing executive can connect better with a potential customer and clinch a deal under such conditions, and difficult negotiations become easy," he says.

Control over breathing

To reach that stage though, one has to learn controlled breathing. "Under stressful conditions one starts breathing faster and it only adds to the tension... by trying to breathe more slowly, you can actually ease the situation. This has been proved all over the world and is very much a basic aspect of yoga,'' he explains.

Channelising thoughts

The next stage will be in activating the "charkas" or energy centres of the body which leads to increased awareness. By activating "charkas" or energy centres and channelising thoughts, healing becomes faster, he says.

"There is a scientific basis to all this and what I teach at my workshops is allied to the principles of quantum physics that we are all energy bodies and there is a oneness in all matter," he says. Going by what he says, physics and philosophy are not far apart.

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