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Personal Growth Alternatives Newsletter
October 2005

Rusty Stewart, Ph.D. Rusty Stewart, Ph.D., earned his doctorate in Psychoeducational Processes at Temple University. He is a proficient and skilled Reiki Master, Transformational Breath Facilitator, Advanced Clinical Hypnotherapist, and Advanced Master Shapeshifter Practitioner. He has a private practice in Integrated Energy Balancing Healing Psychotherapy Including Heart Centered Hypnotherapy, Shapeshifting Consciousness, Body Centered Psychotherapy, Aromatherapy, Quantum Physics thought retraining, and Imago centered couples work. Rusty presents workshops throughout the tri-state area including Holistic Integrative Breathing, Shapeshifting: The Ultimate Wake-Up Call!, Break on Through to the Other Side: Walking the Talk!, Igniting Personal Power: Proven Manifestation Techniques!, Advanced Recovery: The Next Step!, and Creating Sacred Relationships! In addition, Rusty is organizing bi-weekly groups to begin in the Spring 2005 time frame. He also facilitates certifications in Reiki I, II, III, and Holistic Integrative Breathing I, II, & III. Rusty also created the 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 and psychology at the University Of The Sciences in Philadelphia.

Personal Message

Friends, Brothers, and Sisters,

The Holistic Integrative Breathing Part II Cd's are in!!! Please go to the Holistic Integrative Breathing CDs below to get more specifics.

Please read this message carefully as the FREE Manifesting Community Listings are changing for the better!! The listings are now separated by dated, ongoing, and classified listings. Directions are on my website and on this newsletter. This will provide more control over where listings should go and allow people to enter listings all the time. It will also free me up from administrative duties so I can concentrate on my passions. You will need to put an end date on the event if it is ongoing or classified and then re-enter the listing when it expires. All listings will be automatically updated as dates pass by and as new dates are added. All events will be in date chronological order.

There will be a featured article every month that will be different from my articles in Yoga Living. 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, Reiki shares, and support groups that I support and/or 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 all three of my locations and encourage people to deepen their process through the workshops that I offer.

Get out and enjoy the beginning of autumn! Show and extend your love all year long!

Peace and Love,

Rusty Stewart, Ph.D.

Professional Message

Autumn is a time when the trees shed their leaves. Metaphorically, it can be a time for us to let go of the old to make way for the new. If we do not clear out and make space for new energies to come into our lives, we can get blocked and stagnate. Sometimes it can be scary to let go of the familiar even though it may not be working for us. It is in times like these that we need strength and courage to take healthy risks. Letting go always involves loss of some kind. This often precipitates pain and grief. Sometimes it may even mean the annihilation of our life as we know it. The death of parts of our ego selves can feel like terror and the experience of the unknown.

However, with all psychological death comes rebirth, new beginnings, and higher consciousness. This is the experience of healing and transcendence. Sometimes what we transcend is not even judged as bad, it just doesn't parallel with our path. And if we don't let it go, we will continue to sabotage our life purpose and highest good until we choose to let it go. Our egos many times will try to control our choices, even attempt to force them to work. Unfortunately, our intuitive Godselves are where the answers lie, not with our egos! Many times our toughest choices are where our greatest seeds of possibility are waiting to take root.

So I encourage you to take an inventory of your lives during this fall season and see where you need to let go to grow. Know that these choices will not be easy, but they will be necessary to travel down your path of healing and true life purpose.

Namaste,

Rusty Stewart, Ph.D.

Holistic Integrative Breathing CDs

The Holistic Integrative Breathing Part II Cd's are in!!!
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 Journey of the Drums Primal Drumming Breath (Journey 1), 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 breaths for my part 2 breath workshop and certification are NOW AVAILABLE! You will receive the Journey of the Drums primal drumming breath (Journey 2), Compassion Breath, Unity Breath, Clarity Breath, and Soul Star Breath with all the affirmations included. The cost is $25 plus $3.85 shipping and handling for either of the 5 breath sets or $50 plus $3.85 shipping and handling for the entire 10 breath set. 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.




Free Open Community Listings

Please check out the Manifesting Community icon above and click to see a file of all the upcoming community events. Anyone can submit community events, workshops, seminars, etc., to post on this list for FREE. The listings are now separated by dated, ongoing, and classified listings! Please click on the List Events icon on this newsletter or my website and follow the directions to manually input your listing. This will be updated continuously automatically as dates pass and new events are added. If you have any questions please feel free to email me at rusty@rustystewartphd.com or call me at 215-658-1093. Let's all work together in Manifesting Whole Community!!

Table of Contents

Free Open Community Listings
Featured Events
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 Events

Mind Body Spirit Expo 2005:
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Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, October 21, 22, & 23, 2005: Valley Forger Convention Center, King Of Prussia, PA 215-627-0102. Come visit Rusty at Booth B65 and hear him give a free talk on Igniting Personal Power: Proven Manifestation Techniques! 1-2pm Saturday followed by a paid workshop ($20) on 3-5pm Saturday.

Featured Article

Opening The Power Of The Heart Through Loss, Vulnerability, And Impermanence

Death has a way of opening our hearts. In fact losses of many kinds can affect our hearts. It is in these times of vulnerability that it is important to experience the power of an open heart. Nothing in human form can compare to this power for an open heart is where compassion, forgiveness, and love of oneself and others emanate. It is from here that we experience our collective oneness and remove the egos barriers of separation. At the same time it is a place where the ego reminds us of the impermanence of everything in the consciousness of form. This can be a lonely place if we do not stay connected to our Godselves for that is the only thing that is permanent and real. Everything else is a dream or a play, which we choose to be actors in for the purpose of reminding our brothers and sisters of their true divine and innocent nature. And it is from this place where we can follow each other back home to our oneness in Spirit with the Creator. "Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists, herein lies the peace of God" (A Course In Miracles).

The only way home is through the heart. That does not mean it will be an easy or "fun" journey at times. However, if you truly want to manifest your heart's desire, then you will have to let go of your ideas about expectation, attachment, and control. The only way to keep our hearts open and experience true Godself power, and create and manifest, is to change our perception of the way we -- think it is supposed to be. It is what I call "The Experience Of Getting It" And we may get it while losing people and things or while feeling hopeless and like shit. Remember this is just a stage on which we are choosing to perform so we can create a map to follow back home. The heart is our compass. The map is our collective lessons and experiences we learn from through our sisters, brothers, and universe. Trust is the fuel that propels us on our life purpose and mission. Our intuition and heart keep us on track. Our ego continually steers us off course and tries to convince us that fear is what's real, and that separation and death are the only way to end suffering. I can tell you from first hand experience though, that genuinely feeling and experiencing suffering is the only way to ease suffering. This is what opens our heart to Love. This is what authentic Mo Jo is about.

As I sat on the beach in Ocean City, NJ in August and September, I was constantly reminded of impermanence. As the waves washed upon the sand whatever footprints or sandcastles were there disappeared in an instant. And every time the waves washed up the design of the landscape of the sand was altered, never the same. This awareness stimulated deeper and more painful experiences of recent loss and grief. My heart ached. My dreams and expectations seemed to drown in the ocean waters. How could this be happening? I've manifested a more balanced life, I'm breathing and meditating regularly, I'm asking for help, I'm turning it over, I'm slowing down and listening to messages, I'm trusting my intuition and acting on it. What gives? The part I've not gotten yet is my valuing process. With everything I am doing and being I still have a judgment that my life as I know it and value it should not be manifesting the way it is. Says who, my ego? My little self that thinks it knows how it is supposed to be? The self who does not think that loss, pain, suffering, and loneliness is part of the process? Get real!

This process is part of my lesson in owning the power of my vulnerability, releasing attachment, and learning to keep my heart open. How can I manifest an authentic, balanced, and purposeful life without feeling what's emanating from my heart? This isn't a thinking exercise. Sure, thought is part of it, but not at the expense of the affect of the heart. Feelings are the bridge that link our thoughts to experience. Without authentic feeling we cannot experience trust, and without trust we have no fuel to manifest. Sometimes what seems as our darkest moments is when we are the most powerful and closest to "The Experience Of Getting It!" And because it's the egos job to create fear and separation, then convince us it is protecting us from fear, it will many times convince us to quit when the pain gets really intense so we don't get it. If we got it the ego's job description would be changed. The ego would become supportive in operating from our heart -- for the truth is, that our power lies in our vulnerability and our invulnerability lies in our vulnerability.

So I invite you to manifest to your hearts desire. Don't get confused as to what that means. Stay out of your head, let go, turn it over, and don't have any expectations as to how it should look and be. Our Godselves will guide us from pure and innocent intent, so we have to slow down and listen to our intuition. Our intuition is our Godselves communicating to us. All of the universe and our brothers and sisters are our teachers on the temporary plane of form. Don't judge and value our experiences as good or bad. Allow the mind to heal itself through Spirit. Be vulnerable with yourself and others and allow your heart to authentically feel. This frees us up to be present in the moment and embrace impermanence. And that, my friend, is when we open ourselves to the possibility of "The Experience Of Getting It." -- a powerful knowingness that our permanence of Spirit lies in the impermanence of our human form. Wow, the humbleness of the Gods We are! Doesn't that want to make you just cry?

Workshop/Events Calendar

Holistic Integrative Breathing:

Saturday October 8, 2005: 10am-5pm Center For Human Integration, 8400 Pine Road, Philadelphia, PA, 215-742-3505, $75 full registration, limited to 20 people.

Mind Body Spirit Expo 2005:

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Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, October 21, 22, & 23, 2005: Valley Forge Convention Center, King Of Prussia, PA 215-627-0102. Come visit Rusty at Booth B65 and hear him give a free talk on Igniting Personal Power: Proven Manifestation Techniques! 1-2pm Saturday followed by a paid workshop ($20) on 3-5pm Saturday.

Shapeshifting: The Ultimate Wake-Up Call!

Monday October 24, 2005: 7pm-9pm, Health & Wellness Center, 847 Easton Road, Warrington, PA 215-918-5995, $25 full registration. This is a special one-time all men's group to balance and get in touch with the feminine aspects of Mother Earth energy.

Saturday November 5, 2005: 10am-5pm, Health & W/ellness Center, 847 Easton Road, Warrington, PA 215-918-5995, $75 full registration. Sacred Fire ceremony to conclude and seal our commitment to ourselves, mother earth, and humanity.

Saturday November 19, 2005: 10am-5pm, Kimberton Whole Foods, 2140 Kimberton Road, Kimberton, PA 610-935-1444, $75 full registration. Sacred Fire ceremony to conclude and seal our commitment to ourselves, mother earth, and humanity.

Igniting Personal Power: Proven Manifestation Techniques!

Friday October 28, 7pm-10pm and Saturday October 29 9am- 6pm, 2005: Center For Human Integration, 8400 Pine Road, Philadelphia, PA, 215-742-3505, $146 full registration. Learn to apply personal power and various manifestation techniques in all areas of our lives!

Igniting Personal Power: Proven Manifestation Techniques!

Support, Practice, and Sharing Group Forming Fall 2005 (Exact dates to be forthcoming): 7pm-9:00pm, Chakra Shop, 3223 Germantown Pike, Fairview Village (Next to The Country Moon), PA, 215-658-1093, $39 each session. An experiential 12 session 2 hour support, sharing, and practice group. Learn to apply personal power and various manifestation techniques in all areas of our lives!

Reiki Level I Certification:

Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, November 11, 12, & 13, 2005: 9am-6pm, Cloud Hands Healing Arts Center, 6907 Easton Road, Pipersville, PA, $250 full paid registration with $50 non-refundable deposit reserving your spot with full payment due by Thursday November 10. Call 215-766-8678 to register.

Creating Sacred Relationships!:

Friday November 18, 2005: 6:30pm-8:30pm, The Yoga Life Institute, 821 Lancaster Avenue, Devon, PA, Call 610- 688-7030, $25 full registration.

Free Lectures/Events Calendar

Free Reiki Share:

Monday October 17, 2005: 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. Must call by Friday October 14 to reserve your spot. All Reiki practitioners' welcome!

Monday November 28, 2005: 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. Must call by Friday November 24 to reserve your spot. All Reiki practitioners' welcome!

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

Website: www.personalgrowthalternatives.com
Email: rusty@personalgrowthalternatives.com
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