Personal Growth Alternatives Newsletter
June 2006

Rusty Stewart, Ph.D., ACHt., earned his doctorate in Psychoeducational Processes at Temple University. He is a proficient and skilled Psychotherapist and Energy Healer. His certifications include: Reiki Master Teacher, Transformational Breath Facilitator, Advanced Clinical Hypnotherapist, Release Therapist, Shamanic Reiki Master Practitioner, and Advanced Master Shapeshifter Practitioner. Rusty has a private practice in Integrated Energy Balancing Healing Psychotherapy Including Heart Centered Hypnotherapy, Holistic Integrated Breathing, Regression and Rebirthing Release Breathing, Shamanic Journey and Soul Retrieval, 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!, Creating Sacred Relationships, Radical Play, Uninhibited Fun!, and Integrated Spirituality! In addition, Rusty is organizing bi-weekly and/or monthly groups to begin in the 2007 time frame as soon as the healing center manifests. He also facilitates certifications in Reiki I, II, III, Shamanic Reiki Master Practitioner, and Holistic Integrative Breathing I, II, & III. He also created the new complementary 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 and Marriages and Families Affected by Substance Abuse at Thomas Jefferson University, Social Psychology at the University Of The Sciences in Philadelphia and Holistic Counseling Techniques at Georgian Court University in Lakewood, NJ.

Personal Message

Friends, Brothers, and Sisters,

I am now seeing clients in the Main Line area at Communitas, A Center for Health & Transformation, LLC, 201 Sabine Ave., Suite 100, Narberth, PA. Thank you my brothers and sisters at Communitas for extending your space to me. For an appointment call my cell phone, 609-332-4663. I will be at Communitas on select Fridays depending on my schedule and client demand. This is Part I in creating a larger presence for myself and Personal Growth Alternatives: A Healing And Community Spiritual Center in the Main Line area. Part II is to manifest a free-standing space for Personal Growth Alternatives: A Healing And Community Spiritual Center somewhere in the Main Line area in 2007. Please read the Personal Growth Alternatives: A Healing and Community Spiritual Center Update Bulletin!

Personal Growth Alternatives is looking to expand and manifest community in new and interesting ways. Please check out Personal Growth Alternatives: A Healing and Community Spiritual Center Update Bulletin! This bulletin will be updated periodically to encourage dialogue and feedback between interested practitioners and myself. Please be patient if I do not get back to you right away. I will get back to you! Thank you in advance for your participation.

Soon my website will have a new section called “Manifesting Community Cooperation Network” on the home page. This will be a different type of link service. Organizations and individuals with similar visions of community cooperation will be invited to submit their websites, purpose, and mission to me for dialogue and feedback. My mission, vision, and purpose will be updated in the coming weeks to reflect this link service. The main premise is non-competition. This paradigm is essential to be part of this network. Abundance rules, scarcity fools! More to come….

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. 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.

I am also setting up the FREE Links Page like the Manifesting Community Listings. Links will be able to be posted manually. You will need to have an operating website to be able to add your link and description to the links page. This will help to keep the links page up to date as everyone who adds their link is responsible to keep it up to date. If something changes you will need to re-submit your link and description and email me to delete your old link listing.

There will be a featured article every month that will be different from my articles in Yoga Living Magazine. Please offer me feedback and dialogue on any of my articles and Professional Messages! Many of my articles and professional messages are an extension of what is going on with me Manifesting Community in the Philadelphia area. I'm asking for support, help, and community brainstorming to make that happen! All of my articles and newsletters can be accessed on the archived article and archived newsletter lists on my website. We can manifest community together!! We can experience community like they do in certain parts of the western US right here!! All it takes is vision, participation, persistence, and commitment!! Please share in manifesting community with me!!

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

Get outside and enjoy the energy of spring and the beginning of summer! Show and extend your love all year long!

Peace, Love, and Joy,

Rusty Stewart, Ph.D.

Personal Growth Alternatives Healing Center Update Bulletin!

I am now seeing clients in the Main Line area at Communitas, A Center for Health & Transformation, LLC, 201 Sabine Ave., Suite 100, Narberth, PA. Thank you my brothers and sisters at Communitas for extending your space to me. For an appointment call my cell phone, 609-332-4663. I will be at Communitas on select Fridays depending on my schedule and client demand. This is Part I in creating a larger presence for myself and Personal Growth Alternatives: A Healing And Community Spiritual Center in the Main Line area. Part II is to manifest a free-standing space for Personal Growth Alternatives: A Healing And Community Spiritual Center somewhere in the Main Line area in 2007.

As I shared in my last newsletter I am looking for committed healers who share in my vision. My intention is to find a core group of people (3-5), to create and manifest the beginnings of a healing center under the umbrella of Personal Growth Alternatives in the Main Line area. Presently that area is pretty broad. As more people share their ideas and intentions with me, it will become clearer where to look for space. Much of this year will be a fact-finding and brainstorming year with the intent on moving into a space in 2007. I hope to have a more detailed position paper for review by early summer. I am welcoming all interested practitioners for an open dialogue until a core group organically manifests itself. Commitment of vision and purpose is of paramount importance. We are not just sharing space and I am not a landlord renting space out. So this is an intimate process of getting to know one another.

I am currently thinking of the center being a combination of profit and non-profit. I don't specifically know what that would look like yet but given our state of economic complexities, having both entities may be the most flexible way to go especially if the non-profit sector happens to be partially or fully grant funded. All options are being left open until more clarity of possibilities are explored. This is a community-oriented project. The goal is to start off small and grow the center through the needs of the holistic community. The core group should be able to work together in healing clients through emotional, mental, physical, spiritual, and energetic approaches. We will truly focus on mind, body, and spirit.

Please feel free to email me or call me (office) 215-658-1093, or (cell) 609-332-4663 to participate in an open dialogue and brainstorming. You do not need to be a practitioner to participate in this process. I need to hear from as many people as possible. All voices are important! If I do not get back to you quickly please know that your response is important and that I am frequently out of town and busy trying to answer all my emails and phone calls.

So let the fun begin!

Peace and Love,

Rusty

Professional Message

Get outside! Form groups. Create community. Let your voice be heard. Speak your truth and gain the support from like minds. Now is not the time to hibernate, to retreat, to go into our caves. Instead it is time to ignite a consciousness revolution. Let go of fear. Welcome the unknown, uncertainty, and the unfamiliar. Take a stand for what you believe in. Let your radiance shine. Don't hold back, we all need your energy. I need your energy. The Earth and all of her inhabitants need your energy. Be authentic. Join our community in extending love in compassionately stirring the masses up from their long and delirious sleep. Mother Earth and all of life beckon our diligence in slowing, redirecting, and stopping the roller coaster to annihilation.

We have all been influenced too long from the ego's theme of specialness and separation. We all need to shift our perception and create a miracle. Look for commonality. Concentrate on sameness. Experience the mirrors of oneness. Let go of judgment of self-righteousness. Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy? We can't have both. When one is right that makes the other wrong and creates anger, fear, resentment, guilt, shame, you name it. This is separateness. It doesn't work. It's a recipe for disaster in all relationships. No one wants to be wrong. We fight and kill in the name of righteousness. It's time to let go of being right and be who we really are, children of the Creator. Children of Love. Let go of difference, and embrace the oneness in us all. We are all just reflecting our fears back and forth to one another. I suggest an alternate reality and change our perception by mirroring love, compassion, and forgiveness to one another. Now that's a true miracle!

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...

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Table of Contents

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

Featured Article

The Truth And The Matrix Revisited Parts I And II

I have decided to combine and repeat both articles from the last two newsletters. These articles are important to me. As I embark on creating new and exciting areas of my life I need to know there are like-minded people out there. I need to know that I am not the only one feeling the turbulent energies in the world. Together we can shift our perception of these energies to love, excitement, surrender, and discovery of the unknown. I have committed to exploring deeper levels of healing my mind, heart, and soul. This last year has been a clearing out process for me. Now as I heal and reintegrate the teachings of the last year, I find myself surrendering to Spirit once again and asking Spirit to lead me the way. I cannot retreat from my “truth”. As a result, I am experiencing this feeling of one foot in the Matrix and one foot in the Spirit world. Does anyone else experience this? My mission is to manifest community and create a healing and spiritual community center in the Philadelphia area. I need help. These articles articulate what I am experiencing and going through. My Spirit Guides have told me that I am supposed to be a bridge. Bridges need support otherwise they will collapse. I now realize I collapsed in the past year because I was still trying to be superman and do it all myself. It doesn't work! I need community. I believe we all need community. Please read the two articles that follow as well as the rest of my newsletter. I am requesting your feedback. You are important to me. You are me and I am you. I value your input for we are all Love!

The Truth And The Matrix Revisited Part I

This article speaks to the many energies swirling and promoting chaos as people contract in fear around the globe. It need not be that way. We just have to learn how to work with the energies and take care of ourselves. Now more than ever we must master our disciplines to stay centered during these tumultuous times. For many of us there is no turning back. Truth is truth, at least the truths we can experience in human form. There are, of course, truths of spirit that eclipse our worldly phenomenon. Before I continue I would like to acknowledge the book that inspired parts of this body of work. The book is called, The Journey to you: A Shaman's Path To Enlightenment by Ross Heaven. I have found it to be enlightening and pertinent to our times. The part I am referring to is subtitled, The Truth And The Matrix in chapter two.

For those of you familiar with Nemo and the Matrix movie trilogy this will be familiar ground. Use your imagination as I draw the parallels and metaphors from the "fictional" movie to our present world. The Matrix is the grid of illusion. What we see is not really what is real. What is real is beneath the surface. In essence, we have been sold a bill of goods, or brainwashed if you will. "In the linear world we have created, we have generated many specialisms and given birth to a long list of 'experts'. Now we do not need to heal ourselves as we once did, or to take personal responsibility for our own well-being. We turn instead to doctors who we expect to 'heal' us, to policemen, lawyers and politicians who will enforce the social dream for us according to the ethics our society has, almost randomly, chosen to live by. We do not need to exercise our own sense of what is right. Our psychiatrists and scientists define what is real and what is fantasy. Our TV sets and journalists interpret the wider world for us. And our priests stand before us to decide the words and the will of god, if, indeed, She is deemed to exist at all. We have placed a million intermediaries between us and our direct experience of life in all of its manifestations – and every time we turn to one of them, we give away our power and accept the dreams of someone else" (Heaven, 2001).

I say don't let them. Think for yourself. Heal yourself. Commit to yourself. Dream a different dream. Don't let the energies of the matrix unground your truth! Stay the course. Now that's a familiar phrase… except this time it will equal integrity and not war. "When it comes right down to it, there is nowhere else to look, no consistent external reality we can subscribe to which is unchanging and universally true, and no one else who can answer for us. Whether we look for answers in the physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual world, we are only ever what we belief ourselves to be, or else we are the dream of someone else. As Castaneda tells us in 'A Separate Reality': 'The world is whatever we perceive, in any manner we may choose to perceive'" (Heaven, 2001).

This is where the power of community becomes so important. In order to walk the path of our truth we need support. It is easy to get swept up in the energies of the mainstream matrix and lose ourselves in another's dream. It helps if together, we dream another dream. One based on truth, compassion, love, forgiveness, integrated spirituality and collective cooperation. "Colin Wilson, in his book, 'The Outsider', estimates that only 4 percent of people can live with the tension of being both a part of and outside of society at the same time, living within the matrix but knowing there is more, sensing that there is something wrong with reality but not knowing what it is" (Heaven, 2001).

It won't necessarily be easy but we can learn to work with the energies that oscillate between the matrix and the truth. Remember fear is not real and truth and Love are real. We can choose to heal ourselves and extend it to the world and universe. And so I ask you, how important is our role as nonconformist people? "If they can manage to do so, these people fulfill a vital function for us all as the innovators, the pioneers, the creative individuals, the urban shamans, who are able to shift our collective consciousness through the power of unorthodox thought and a willingness to explore new realities. But many – the drop outs, the burnouts, the isolated, the teenage suicides – fail to cope with the colossal existential task of recreating and redefining their lives and their worlds each and every day. And even those outsiders who succeed for a while – Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Van Gough, Hemingway, James Dean, Kurt Cobain – risk literal as well as psychic death in doing so. It is a perilous path we embark upon when we choose to live our own personal truth" (Heaven, 2001).

And so remember I said that for many of us there is no turning back. There is no time to hide or procrastinate. Please join me. Let's manifest a community of no turning back. We can support each other in becoming heroes of ourselves and each other and walk the path of truth, Love, and possibility. "A person becomes a Hero when he decides to take the journey, painful and disturbing though it may sometimes be, in order to discover the new truths that will help him to create meaning in his world. The Journey, in fact, is what makes him a Hero, instead of someone who ignores the calling of the quest and opts in to the social mythology of the majority worldview" (Heaven, 2001). Indeed there are more of us than we think. We just have to reach out and find each other. Then we can truly support each other in changing our perceptions from the inside out and take a stand for healing and Love. Then we will experience authentic change. "It is an experience captured elegantly by T. S. Eliot in the poem, 'Little Gidding':

" We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time" (Heaven, 2001).

The Truth And The Matrix Revisited Part II

We can take back our power in groups, in community. Of course this takes a diligent level of commitment. It takes courage. It takes the energy of passion and compassion. We can dream a more powerful dream together. We can make a difference. Our children, our children's children, etc., are counting on us. It is customary in Native American tradition to consider the ramifications of how our decisions will affect our children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren seven generations into the future. In addition, Native Americans are concerned with how all of the other precious life beings will be affected on Mother Earth, including all the Earth Elements.

As I have stressed so many times it all starts from inside of each one of us. That is where true change occurs. But it helps to have a support network of like-minded people who can pool their energies together. Then, we don't feel so alone. When we work together it exponentially multiplies the energies. This facilitates and speeds a collective consciousness shift. And, do I dare to say that with the rapidity of change happening and the increasing polarity of energy, we need to bolster the shift to love, compassion, and forgiveness. For with that change in perception all else would fall into place. We would find that the chasm between the polarities would lessen and that living both inside and outside of society would begin to diminish as more and more people bridge the ravine of separation. Miracles would begin to be more of the norm as the illusion and hologram of the matrix starts to flicker, revealing the eternal truth underneath.

I believe we have reached an apex where the benefits of living our truth on this auspicious path outweigh the risks. The greater risk is who we become if we deny our truth, if we deny our love, and if we fail to express our Divinity within. As I said in Part I, for many of us there is no turning back. There are many more of us sharing this same experience than we think. It is critical for us to find each other and come together for ritual, support, and ceremony. We cannot do this alone, and to not do it would be a violation of our soul and our Spirit. We need not be discouraged, sisters and brothers, when we have each other. Let us reach out with our hearts and hands to each other and guide one another in all aspects of community.

And so I ask all readers of this article to speak to me, respond in some way to let me know you are out there wanting the world to be different. I need feedback and community conversation. Ultimately, that is what I envision in manifesting a healing and community spiritual center. A place where we can gather in support and encouragement while we create a miracle from within in unison and extend our energies outward into the world. There is no other way. It truly is an inside job. But it is easier with support and community. We are all one. The microcosm affects the macrocosm. Please call or email me your thoughts, feelings, and ideas. In closing I would like to share one of my favorite A Course In Miracles quotes:

"Nothing real can be threatened Nothing unreal exists
Herein lies the peace of God" (ACIM, 1977)

Our truth cannot be threatened. The matrix is not real. It's time to come home to Love!

Featured Events

Now with three convenient locations to serve you!

Main Office:
Horsham, PA 19044
Just off Welsh Road (Rte. 63)
215-658-1093

Communitas
A Center for Health & Transformation, LLC
201 Sabine Ave., Suite 100
Narberth, PA 19072
609-332-4663

Wellspring Counseling
19 N. Centre Street
Merchantville, NJ 08109
609-332-4663