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Tony Osguthorpe

Tony is proficient in Psychotherapy, Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP) Lecturing and delivering training on a number of subjects in Colleges, Companies and for HMP Service.

Tony has combined years of research and experience into a unique and highly successful personal development programme that educates, entertains and explains how to achieve changes in lifestyle regardless of background.

If you ask most people what they want in life I guess it would sound like this “more wealth, better health, and to be more happy”. Whilst having more cash may remove certain pressures, will it bring real contentment, I often ask frequently to clients.

Think about this, we are born, yet we are taught little about what is happening on the inside of our minds, what is happening in our brains; Why do we get depressed? Why do we get angry? feel pain when others don’t agree with us?

Well we feel like this because the culture we are living in is totally centred around us and revolves around a “me, myself and I” mind set. In our society of today it’s all about the individual. The reason for this is because of the way we have been taught to think, and how our beliefs operate in society. It breeds a belief of “What can I get?” “What’s in this for me?” attitude. It focuses on what we want to portray to other people, doing certain things to keep a lifestyle totally centered around the thinking of “me, myself and I”.

This kind of education and social conditioning we receive through a variety of sources including our current education system that does not control behaviour. Behaviour is controlled by what is called a “paradigm”.

At school, in college, we are fed information, told to retain it, repeat it, pass an exam and then put it aside once we know when we have studied it. A quick check of our results in life reveals what we have learned.

When children are being educated we seldom tell the child. “I want you to think about this”. No, we say “listen to what I am telling you”, “will you look at this”. We are programmed with lots of negative information in our early years and then expected to be model citizens.

We are taught to look at our exam results, at an early age and are then told what kind of work we are best suited to do. Our school report card tells us where our mind was on the day we sat our exams, it is not a real indication of our true potential. We leave school and that report card locks many into the beliefs that they can only expect an average life of lack and limitation. At the same time culture and conditioning formulates our thoughts and compounds a belief that “Breaking The Law” is the only way to get what you want. Is it any wonder Crime is at a all time high, Prisons overcrowded and Anti Social Behaviour raising.

We are submerged in a cuture that demands entertainment, and fosters total self indulgence with very small regard for others.

If we want to change we must first be the change others want to see and then affect change in the lives of others. It all starts with our own thinking and then being taught how to think. Most people are on auto pilot when it comes down to cognitive thinking. They don’t know what they don’t know!!. Desparetely trying to modify their behaviour drumming up will power only to find it unsustainable and short lived efforts are the results.p>