Personal Growth Alternatives Newsletter
October 2004

Rusty Stewart, Ph.D., earned his doctorate in Psychoeducational Processes at Temple University. He is a proficient and skilled Reiki Master, Transformational Breath Facilitator, Certified Hypnotherapist, and Certified Shapeshifting Practitioner. He has a private practice in Integrated Energy Balancing Healing Psychotherapy Including Heat Centered Hypnotherapy, Shapeshifting Consciousness, Body Centered Psychotherapy, and Aromatherapy. Rusty presents workshops throughout the tri-state area including Holistic Integrative Breathing, BreathJourneying, Break on Through to the Other Side: Walking the Talk, and The Source of World Peace and Joy! He created a new alternative DUI curriculum for Bucks County Council for Alcoholism. In addition, Rusty was an Adjunct Professor for Temple University in the Department for Psychological Studies in Education teaching Group Dynamics, Learning Theory, and Intimacy & Control, and currently teaches psychology at the Thomas Jefferson University and social psychology at the University Of The Sciences.

Personal Message

Friends, Brothers, and Sisters,

Welcome to my new newsletter format. It has been long in the making. Thank you for your patience! Feel free to offer suggestions, as this is an evolving process. Please check out the Manifesting Community icon and click to see a file of all the upcoming community events for the next 60 days. Anyone can submit community events, workshops, or classes to post on this list for free provided you email it to me by the 20th of each month in Times New Roman 12 pt. font (no bold or underlining please). I will cut, paste, and sort the list by date of event. This will be updated every month.

There will be a featured article every month that will be different than my articles in the Yoga Living or Wisdom magazines. Some of the articles may be the same as articles I submit to Inner Realm magazine in NY & NJ. You are welcome to offer me feedback on any of my articles. All of my articles can be accessed on my achieved article list on my website.

The table of contents will take you wherever you want to go in my newsletter or directly to my website. Please take special notice of the free lectures and support groups that I offer. And, as always, if you like the work I do please pass it along to people you care about. I am grateful for any referrals that come my way. I am accepting new clients for integrated psychotherapy in both of my locations and encourage people to deepen their process through the workshops that I offer.

Go outside and enjoy the beginning of autumn!

Namaste,

Rusty Stewart, Ph.D.

Professional Message

Autumn is a time to harvest. To give thanks. To show gratitude for the abundances we do have in our lives. I am reminded as we do our deeper work not to forget the positive experiences, the growth we have experienced, the laughter, and the fun. Remember this as you read my article about "Ouch This Hurts! Doing Our Deeper Healing Work." So much of our reality is determined by what we decide to focus on. As healers and therapists it is important to remind our clients of their progress, courage, blessings, and inherent goodness! It is also crucial for anyone healing themselves from their past wound systems to take inventory of their successes along a healing continuum. Nothing is black and white. We are working towards more peace, more compassion, and more forgiveness. This autumn let's celebrate our perfect humanness and experience gratitude for having the opportunity heal and move along the continuum towards wholeness! YEA!!

Holistic Integrative Breathing CDs

For those of you who have taken my Holistic Integrative Breathing workshops or Transformational BreathWork workshops my guided cd's are now available! You will receive the primal drumming breath, joy breath, cosmos breath, divinity breath, and vision breath with all the affirmations included. These are all the breaths I teach in my all day breath workshop. The cost is $25 plus $3.85 shipping and handling. The breaths for my part 2 breath workshop will be available in cd's sometime early this summer. Just send a check to Rusty Stewart, Ph.D., 23 Timber Road, Horsham, PA 19044. I will send them out as soon as I receive your check. Thank you! more...

Wisdom Of The Earth Medicinal Therapeutic Grade Essential Oils

I am blessed and grateful to be able to make Wisdom Of The Earth's medicinal therapeutic grade essential oils available for purchase. I use Barry's oils in my private practice, in some of my workshops and personally for my own proactive holistic health. These oils can be very powerful when used on the chakras or along the spine during a breathing and energy session. I encourage all my clients, students, brothers and sisters to experience the healing power of these unbelievable highest quality essential oils! Read more about Wisdom Of The Earth Oils, cost, types, sizes, etc.

Table of Contents

Free Open Community Listings
Featured Event
Featured Article
Archived Articles
Workshops/Events Calendar
Free Lectures/Events Calendar
Personal Message
Professional Message
Holistic Integrative Breathing CDs
Wisdom Of The Earth Oils
Personal Growth Alternatives Website

Featured Event

Featured Article

Ouch! This Hurts! Doing Our Deeper Healing Work

I know you don't want to hear this, but it HURTS! Basically, doing the deeper work SUCKS!

Now that we've got that out of the way, let's look at the benefits of subjecting ourselves to uncovering and revisiting our past wounds and traumas. First of all, if we want to stop our negative patterns, we have to release the energy we have from the past which repeatedly sets up this dynamic to happen over and over and over again. Many times I have new clients come to me saying, "I've forgiven the people from my past, the past is past, I'm not going back into that pain and trauma again." Impossible! If we are resistant to go back we still have a charge with our past. What we resist persists! The content may differ but the dynamic will keep happening until we break the energy of shame, guilt, fear, and loneliness. We do this through Hypnotherapy and grief work to release anger, feel sadness, and heal. This over time breaks our dysfunctional energy patterns.

Let me move back to forgiveness for a minute. Above I said that it is impossible to have forgiven if we still have energy with those people and/or events. True forgiveness is when the energy is gone and we have taken full responsibility for our lessons. It means taking action or non-action in our declaration not to play the game anymore. Experience the metaphor of I hit you, you hit me back, I hit you, you hit me back, I quit I'm not playing the game anymore. This is when we learn the lesson. We break Karma, we break the bargain of separateness. This is true forgiveness because it opens up the choice for the other person to heal and for ourselves to heal. Then we can look through a new lens and see our victimizers as teachers and saviors. However we can't truly do this until we release the repressed energy from our past which is lurking around in our unconscious.

Now for the really good news. There is a tremendous amount of freedom when we release and forgive. It may be painful, uncomfortable, depressing, anxiety provoking, and enduring for a period of time. Believe me, the benefits are well worth walking in the valley of darkness. Authentic forgiveness brings joy, happiness, innocence, courage, self- confidence, and opens our hearts to love and oneness. Each time we shift our energy away from fear, shame, guilt, and loneliness, we open up to the abundant flow of the universe and God. Life becomes easier with less effort and need to control. Synchronicity and synergism become common experiences. The web of our oneness and connections is enhanced. We begin to have fun again! We are like innocent children exploring the world anew!

All of this and more is available to us by having the courage and patience to do our deeper healing work. Pain and hurt is not bad. It's just a flag that we got out of balance along the way. It's a sign that we were misled away from our innocence. The uncomfortable memories remind us of our lessons to be learned in this lifetime. Whether we chose to heal and learn is our choice. The paradox that I have learned is there is no going back. This means that I'm always moving forward in my personal growth and spirituality no matter how painful it is. But there is no going back to the way I was. Just going back to revisit some of my charged lessons to clear my path back home to my authentic and sinless self. So join with me in healing together and take the band-aid off so the pain and hurt can finally be replaced with forgiveness and joy!

Workshop/Events Calendar

Holistic Integrative Breathing:

Saturday October 2, 2004: 10am-5pm, Center For Human Integration, 8400 Pine Road, Philadelphia, PA, 215-742-3505, $75 full registration, limited to 15 people.

Thursday October 7, 2004: 6:30pm-8pm, Whole Foods Jenkintown, 1575 Fairway Road, Jenkintown, PA, 215-481-0800, Free Sampler, limited to 15 people.

Saturday October 9, 2004: 10am-5pm, Cloud Hands Healing Arts Center, 6907 Easton Road, Pipersville, PA, 215-766-8678, $75 full registration, limited to 15 people.

Sunday October 31, 2004: 10am-5pm, EarthSpeak, 654 Lancaster Avenue, Berwyn, PA, 610-640-0706, $75 full registration, limited to 15 people.

Break On Through To The Other Side: Walking The Talk!

Sunday October 17, 2004: 10am-5pm, Chakra Shop, 3223 Germantown Pike, Fairview Village (Next to The Country Moon), PA, 215-658-1093, $75 full registration.

Mind Body Spirit Expo:

Friday, Saturday, and Sunday October 22, 23, 24, 2004: Valley Forge Convention Center, King of Prussia, PA. See Rusty at booth B55. Rusty will be giving a free lecture followed by a workshop on Shapeshifting: The Ultimate Wake Up Call! Lecture: Saturday 1-2pm
Workshop: Saturday 4-6pm

Shapeshifting: The Ultimate Wake Up Call!

Saturday October 30, 2004: 10am-5pm, Health & Wellness Center, 847 Easton Rd, Warrington. To register, call 215-918-5990. Sacred Fire ceremony to conclude and seal our commitment to ourselves, mother earth, and humanity!

Saturday November 13, 2004: 10am-5pm, Center For Human Integration, 8400 Pine Road, Philadelphia, PA, 215-742-3505, $75 full registration. Sacred Fire ceremony to conclude and seal our commitment to ourselves, mother earth, and humanity!

Reiki Level I Certification:

Friday, Saturday, and Sunday November 19, 20, 21, 2004: 9am-6pm, Chakra Shop, 3223 Germantown Pike, Fairview Village (Next to The Country Moon), PA, $250 full paid registration with $50 non-refundable deposit reserving your spot with full payment due by Friday November 14. Call 215-658-1093 to register.

Free Lectures/Events Calendar

Free Reiki Share:

Tuesday October 26, 2004: 7pm-9pm, Chakra Shop, 3223 Germantown Pike, Fairview Village (Next to The Country Moon), PA, Call 215-658-1093 to let us know you are coming, limited to 15 people. All Reiki practitioners' welcome!

Tuesday November 30, 2004: 7pm-9pm, Chakra Shop, 3223 Germantown Pike, Fairview Village (Next to The Country Moon), PA, Call 215-658-1093 to let us know you are coming, limited to 15 people. All Reiki practitioners' welcome!

Holistic Integrative Breathing:

Thursday October 7, 2004: 6:30pm-8pm, Whole Foods Jenkintown, 1575 Fairway Road, Jenkintown, PA, 215-481-0800, Free Sampler, limited to 15 people.

FREE ONGOING 16 STEP EMPOWERMENT AND DISCOVERY SUPPORT GROUP:

Ongoing Every Thursday: 6:30pm-8pm, The Starting Point, Inc., 215 Highland Avenue, Suite C, Westmont, NJ. The beginning of an ongoing support group for any out of control compulsive behavior or attachment, based on Charlotte Davis Kasle's book Many Roads, One Journey. Call 856-854-3155 or 215-658-1093 for more details!!

Wellspring Counseling Center
63 E. Main Street
Moorestown, NJ 08057
609-332-4663

Three Convenient Locations To Serve You!

The Chakra Shop
3223 Germantown Pike
Fairview Village, PA 19409
215-658-1093

Personal Growth Alternatives
Horsham, PA 19044
Phone: 215-658-1093