Personal Growth Alternatives Newsletter
November 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,

Open Mindstorming Meeting
Sunday December 3, 2006: 2-5pm!!!

ATTENTION!!!!

The time has come! I am passionately inspired and excited to announce the beginning of a new birth: There will be a second mindstorming meeting Sunday December 3, 2006 from 2pm-5pm at Communitas, A Center for Health & Transformation, LLC, 201 Sabine Ave., Suite 100, Narberth, PA. for practitioners or anybody interested in potentially becoming a part of Personal Growth Alternatives: A Holistic, Healing, Education, And Community Spiritual Center to be located somewhere in the Main Line and/or South Jersey area in 2007. Please RSVP by email or call me at 609-332-4663. Let's fill the room up at Communitas!!

Personal Growth Alternatives is looking to expand and manifest community in new and interesting ways. Please check out Personal Growth Alternatives: A Holistic, Healing, Education, and Community Spiritual Center Update! This bulletin will be updated periodically to encourage dialogue and feedback between interested practitioners, volunteers, 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.

Personal Growth Alternatives is looking to expand and manifest community in new and interesting ways. I am now accepting Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and American Express for all my private sessions for couples, individuals, and groups. You can now register and pay for all my workshops, certifications, groups and cd's online via credit card. Dvd's will be coming soon!

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 Holistic, Healing, Education, And Community Spiritual Center in the Main Line area. Part II is to manifest a freestanding space for Personal Growth Alternatives: A Holistic, Healing, Education, And Community Spiritual Center somewhere in the Main Line area and/or South Jersey in 2007. Please read the Personal Growth Alternatives: A Holistic, Healing, Education, and Community Spiritual Center Update at my website at www.rustystewartphd.com

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

I also have a manual self-posting FREE links page called “Holistic Community Circle Links” like the Manifesting Community Listings. Links can now be posted manually. You will need to have an operating website to be able to add your link and description to the links page. On the manual links page there will be a copy of my link that I request you add to your links page on your website. This helps by moving all of us up the list in the search engines. This will help to keep the links page up to date as everyone who adds his or her 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 and description.

The FREE Manifesting Community Listings are separated by dated, ongoing, and classified listings. Directions are on my website and on this newsletter. This provides more control over where listings should go and allows 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 deleted as dates pass by and updated 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 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 mindstorming 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 crisp transitional energy of autumn! Show and extend your love all year long!

Peace, Love, Light, and Joy,

Rusty Stewart, Ph.D.

Personal Growth Alternatives: A Healing, Education, And Community Spiritual Center Update!

Open Mindstorming Meeting Sunday December 3, 2006: 2-5pm!!!

ATTENTION!!!!

The time has come! I am passionately inspired and excited to announce the beginning of a new birth: There will be a second mindstorming meeting Sunday December 3, 2006 from 2pm-5pm at Communitas, A Center for Health & Transformation, LLC, 201 Sabine Ave., Suite 100, Narberth, PA. for practitioners or anybody interested in potentially becoming a part of Personal Growth Alternatives: A Holistic, Healing, Education, And Community Spiritual Center to be located somewhere in the Main Line and/or South Jersey area in 2007. Please RSVP by email or call me at 609-332-4663. Let's fill the room up at Communitas!!

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 Holistic, Healing, Education, And Community Spiritual Center in the Main Line area. Part II is to manifest a freestanding space for Personal Growth Alternatives: A Holistic, Healing, Education, And Community Spiritual Center somewhere in the Main Line area in 2007.

As I have shared in many newsletters, 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. There is also the possibility that this may manifest somewhere else in the Philadelphia area. Lately I have been getting visions of it happening in NJ. Maybe it will happen in both areas, who knows? 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 fact-finding and mindstorming, with the intent of moving into a space in 2007. I hope to have a more detailed position paper for review after the December mindstorming meeting. I am welcoming all interested people and practitioners for an open dialogue until a core group organically manifests itself. This core group of people will ideally have an established client base. Other people can rent space out on a part-time as needed basis to create and grow their practices. Commitment of vision and purpose is of paramount importance. We are not just sharing space and I am not just a landlord renting space out. So this is an intimate process of getting to know one another.

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. More specifically I am looking for holistic practitioners in the following categories: chiropractors, psychologists, psychiatrists, naturopaths, psychotherapists, nutritionalists, energy workers, acupuncturists, coaches, addiction counselors, attorneys, CPA's/financial advisors, grant writers, etc. This is by no means an exhaustive list. All are welcome for consideration.

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. If any of you have experience in the non-profit/profit arena your input would be greatly appreciated.

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 mindstorming. 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 continue!

Peace and Love,

Rusty

Professional Message

Let go! Follow the example of the tree people who are letting go of their leaves. Fall is a time of shedding. This is a time to let go of our egos, our attachments, our baggage, our expectations, our assumptions, our projections, our outcomes. Then we can be free to create in the space of nothing. We need know nothing, we need do nothing. The less we know the more open we are to energy of Love (God). This humility allows us to manifest as the Goddesses and Gods that we are. Nothing blocks us. The less we do the more we be. Being is allowing ourselves to be in the flow of the Universe and follow and act on the messages that are sent to us. None of this works unless we can learn and experience letting go!

As this Thanksgiving season approaches, think about letting go of the past and experiencing family and friends in the present moment. Remember when someone is projecting their stuff on to you they are in fear. And, fear is a call for Love. It is your choice as to whether you extend Love or fear. Show gratitude for what you do have. Write down all the things you have to be grateful for. Know that you are blessed. Know that you are Love and that you are loved in more ways than you will ever know! Have a great Thanksgiving!!

So as I continue to enjoy the beautiful, colorful, and crisp fall season, I would like to invite everybody to a mindstorming meeting I am preparing for Sunday December 3, 2006 for anybody who wants to help manifest a holistic, healing, education, and community spiritual center. As I have been sharing in my past newsletters, I am looking for committed people 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 holistic, healing, education, and spiritual community center under the umbrella of Personal Growth Alternatives: A Holistic, Healing, Education, And Community Spiritual Center to be located somewhere in the Main Line and/or South Jersey area in 2007. I have met with a couple of practitioners, spoke with others on the phone, and emailed back and forth with other interested practitioners. One person suggested getting all the interested people together like a focus group. What a great idea!

Open Mindstorming Meeting Sunday December 3, 2006: 2-5pm!!!

As a result, ATTENTION!!!!, there will be a second mindstorming meeting on Sunday December 3, 2006 from 2pm-5pm at Communitas, A Center for Health & Transformation, LLC, 201 Sabine Ave., Suite 100, Narberth, PA. This is for practitioners or anybody else interested in potentially becoming a part of Personal Growth Alternatives: A Holistic, Healing, Education, And Community Spiritual Center to be located somewhere in the Main Line and/or South Jersey area in 2007. Please RSVP by email or call me at 609-332-4663 or 215-658-1093. Let's fill the room up at Communitas!! All are welcome to attend and share their ideas. There will be light refreshments. Please read the update bulletin and the personal message for updates!

Table of Contents

Free Open Community Listings
Featured Article
Featured Events
Archived Articles
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

An Attitude Of Gratitude Attracts Abundance!

How many times have we heard, we should be grateful for what we do have. Okay, let's take out the should and be grateful for what we do have. Why? Because being grateful is intertwined with the law of attraction and the law of abundance. What we focus on we will attract more of. All events are neutral. It is the value we place on the event that gives it meaning for us. So if we want to attract more good into our lives we must interpret or perceive the good we already have in our lives. We can either see the glass as half empty or half full right?

This is a great time of year to focus on gratitude with Thanksgiving inching upon us in the coming weeks. Give thanks for we truly are blessed! Concentrating on our problems and what we don't have will not only make us miserable and victimized, but it will also magnetize us to attract more of the same so we can continue to complain and wallow in lack. Spend more time with people who support you, are upbeat, who take action, who look at the glass half full. The more we raise our vibration, the more we will attract people and events in our lives that mirror that energy. Get the picture?

Try a little experiment this Thanksgiving if you happen to be visiting family that tends to migrate toward the glass being half empty. In my family that would be putting it mildly. For whatever time you spend with these loved ones over the holidays look at it as a laboratory experiment in keeping your vibration high. If you want to read a book on this I recommend “The Lazy Man's Guide To Enlightenment” by Thaddeus Golas. You can read it in an afternoon. No matter what your family members say or do, or be, just bless them, send them Love, and reframe anything that is negative to the premise of gratitude. Then just sit back and observe. Frankly, I'm not sure what will happen with them, but I am more interested in what will happen with you. Since you are the one creating your reality, I would be willing to guess that you will have a very different experience this Thanksgiving. It is a lot better than witnessing and joining with pain, negativity, problems, blaming, and victimization! Try it and let me know how it goes.

Now some of you may be skeptical about this attitude of gratitude attracting abundance. That's alright. All that is needed is a little willingness and very little belief. This is about just doing it and seeing the proof in the pudding. I have learned that my intellect (ego), will give me all the reasons not to do something. Especially something that seems so simple. I have found that when I apply these basic principles of gratitude in my attitude, good things start entering into my life. You see instead of constricting with my ego in fear, I start to expand in my heart with Love. And the expansion of Love is where all abundance flourishes. Sounds simple doesn't it? Practice expansion and extending Love and see what happens with your vibration. Check back with me and let me know what you start to attract into your life. Don't take my word for it, create your own personal experiment and see for yourself!

Peace, Love, Light, Joy, and an Abundant Thanksgiving,

Rusty

Featured Events

Holistic Integrative Breathing CDs

The Holistic Integrative Breathing Part I and II Cd's are available for purchase!
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 $4.05 U.S priority shipping and handling for either of the 5 breath sets or $50 plus $4.05 shipping and handling for the entire 10 breath set. Just send a check to Rusty Stewart, Ph.D., 23 Timber Road, Horsham, PA 19044 or order them directly online via credit card at www.rustystewartphd.com. I will mail them out as soon as I receive your check or credit card payment. 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.

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