Personal Growth Alternatives Newsletter
January 2006

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 have changed 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 both of my locations and encourage people to deepen their process through the workshops that I offer.

Get out and enjoy new beginnings and the crisp winter season! Show and extend your love all year long! Have a great, loving, peaceful, and safe winter season!

Peace and Love,

Rusty Stewart, Ph.D.

Professional Message

The New Year is upon us! New beginnings. A rebirth if you will. What will your year look like? Have you even thought about it? Are you hoping things will change or be better or are you committed to taking action? And will your action evoke Stage One change or Stage Two change? Stage One change is about increasing the quantity of something thinking more is better and will produce a better or different result. This sometimes is referred to as insanity, “doing more of the same expecting a different result. Stage two change on the other hand is doing something qualitatively different, changing the way we do something. That is, changing our action paradigm. This is much more difficult.

Stage two change will require you to delve into the unknown, take risk, and be willing to experience uncomfortable feelings. This is the key to change. And it works! Why does it work? Because you are reinventing yourself, or metaphorically rebirthing yourself. So as 2005 comes to an end, let it die, let it go. 2006 is a different moment, an opportunity to re-write our legacy, our history. So I encourage you to take risks and embark on some radically new adventures with yourself. Get serious about what you want to create. Then have fun doing and being it. There is no better time than now. Find the support to do it, be it a therapist, coach, support group, workshop, or community. It's much more fun and effective when we ask for help and connect with people that empathize with our dreams and aspirations. Break on through to the other side and dare to be different. Walk the Talk and hold hands with others along the way to your actualized self. You're worth it!

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.

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

Featured Article

Taking Risk In 2006: Time To Take The Other Fork In The Road!

It really is time to radically change, whether you like it or not. Time is running out, for ourselves, our children, our grandchildren, the animals, the plants, the trees, the ocean, our freedom, peace, and our lives as we know them on mother earth. This is not an article on scientific facts about the state of the world and our species. There is a bevy of solid science and sourced information concerning the precarious fragility we have approached with the above. This information is readily available to all of us who are willing to let go of denial and muster the courage necessary to take responsibility and action. Change is never easy. We have become accustomed to certain ways of living that are not in balance with the whole. It will require a radical paradigm shift to take the other fork in the road.

We, meaning each one of us, have to take the other fork in the road. This happens from the inside out. If we are not walking our talk, how can we expect anyone else to change? It's hypocritical and sending messages to the universe to manifest more of the same. Haven't we had more of the same long enough? Aren't you getting sick and tired of participating in insanity? If you think change will happen all around you while your own life and lifestyle remain unscathed then you're a part of the problem. Why not choose to recreate your life differently now, rather than waiting for forces ultimately telling you how you have to live your life? I would rather be a co-creator than a victim. I would rather be a part of the solution than part of the problem. So what will it take to saunter down the other fork?

It will take risk, pain, and feeling uncomfortable, and a lot of it. That's the downside. But the upside is huge. We get to create our lives the way we truly want them. By truly I mean in alignment with our Divine Self. Now one may question this and say my life is the way I want it now. Is your life in alignment with your higher self? Are you regularly extending love, compassion, and forgiveness? Do you feel one with everyone and everything? Do you experience pain as lessons in growth and healing? Do you take personal responsibility in everything you do? Have you let go of the illusion of separateness? If you have not answered yes to all of the above then you still have work to do. And here is a humbling thought; Buddha, Jesus, Gandhi, Mother Theresa, and Mohammad would not have said yes to all of the above.

With this in mind I implore you to take risk in 2006. Break on though to the other side, your divine side. Take the fork toward oneness. Manifestation is much easier when we are connected to the universal energy. The ego is not present when we are experiencing oneness. Which means what you want will be different also. The risk involves letting go of worldly things and trusting in the Divinity within. The other side of the fork is not a well-traveled path. It will test our strength, commitment, and faith. It will not feel pleasant at times. But it will be well worth it. It offers peace, love, compassion, and forgiveness. It offers the security of our eternal spirit. It offers the possibility of critical mass manifesting throughout the rest of the world! That in and of itself is worth the admission to the other fork in the road!

Workshop/Events Calendar

Igniting Personal Power: Proven Manifestation Techniques!

Support, Practice, and Sharing Group Forming Winter/Spring 2006 (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!

Break On Through To The Other Side: Walking The Talk! Committing To and Taking Action On New Years Resolutions!

Monday January 9, 2006: 7pm-9pm, Health & Wellness Center Monday Night Men's Series, 847 Easton Road, Warrington, PA, 215-918-5995, $25 full registration. All Men's Group!

Saturday January 21, 2006: 10am-5pm, Center For Human Integration, 8400 Pine Road, Philadelphia, PA, 215-742-3505, $75 full registration.

Holistic Integrative Breathing:

Friday January 13, 2006: 9:30am-12:30pm, Siloam, 1133 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, PA, 215-765-6633, $30 full registration, limited to 15 people.

Sunday January 22, 2006: 2pm-5pm, Morning Star Center, 1966 Creek Road, Bethlehem, PA, 610-838-2440, $35 full registration, limited to 15 people.

Saturday February 25, 2006: 10am-5pm, Center For Human Integration, 8400 Pine Road, Philadelphia, PA, 215-742-3505, $75 full registration, limited to 25 people.

Free Lectures/Events Calendar

Free Reiki Share:

Monday January 23, 2006: 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!

Monday February 27, 2006: 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!

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!!

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

Two Convenient Locations To Serve You!

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