Personal Growth Alternatives Newsletter
February 2007

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, Sisters, and Brothers,

Open Mindstorming Meeting
Sunday February 25, 2007: 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 third mindstorming meeting Sunday February 25, 2007 from 2pm-5pm at Rusty Stewart's at 23 Timber Road, Horsham, PA 19044. This is 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 Philadelphia area in 2007/2008. Please RSVP by email or call me at 609-332-4663. Let's fill up my living room!!

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.

The New and Improved Holistic Integrative Breathing Guided CD Set One (3 CD Set, 6 tracks) and CD Set Two (3 CD Set, 6 tracks), are now available for purchase online!

For those of you who have taken my Holistic Integrative Breathing workshops, Transformational BreathWork workshops, or would like to learn how to do Holistic Integrative Breathing, my new and improved Guided CD Set's are now available! On CD Set One you will receive an Introduction, the Primal Drumming Breath 1, Joy Breath, Cosmos Breath, Divinity Breath, and Vision Breath with all the positive belief statements included. These are all the breaths I teach in my one day all day breath workshop. On CD Set 2 you will receive the Introduction, the Primal Drumming Breath 2, Compassion Breath, Unity Breath, Clarity Breath, and Soul Star Breath with all the positive belief statements included. The cost is $40 plus $4.20 U.S priority shipping and handling for either CD Set One ($40 + $4.20 shipping) or CD Set Two ($40 + $4.20 shipping). You can purchase both CD Sets at the same time of purchase for $75 plus $4.20 shipping and handling. 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!

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 rebirthing of winter and play in the snow! 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 February 25, 2007: 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 third mindstorming meeting Sunday February 25, 2007 from 2pm-5pm at Rusty Stewart's at 23 Timber Road, Horsham, PA 19044. This is 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 Philadelphia area in 2007. Please RSVP by email or call me at 609-332-4663. Let's fill up my living room!!

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 Philadelphia area in 2007/2008.

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 Philadelphia 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 fact-finding and mindstorming, with the intent of moving into a space later in 2007/2008. I hope to have a more detailed position paper for review before the February 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 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, fund raisers, philanthropists,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! The Time Is NOW!

Peace, Love, Light, and Joy,

Rusty

Professional Message

Something big is happening! A shift is taking place right now! I can sense it, I can feel it, and I can almost taste it! How about you? It's time to put the pedal to the metal. There is a mass awakening taking place via massive energy shifts. Don't let the media and world events fool you. They are focusing on the negative or the resistance of the status quo. That does not mean things are not changing. It actually means things are. When there is a change in consciousness there will be one last all out effort from the old paradigm structure to attempt to stop it. However, it's too late. Critical mass is reached, or the tipping point is reached and there everything else is just a formality of how it's going to play out. Mother earth is already cluing us in to this shift with global warming, the beginning of a magnetic shift in the poles, and other environmental forces. We need to support these shifts and ride the waves.

So what does this mean for you and me? It's a time of awakening to our greatness and realizing how much we really do make a difference when we accept the power of focus, speaking our truth and living our lives authentically like we have only one day to live. It means being present. It means not wasting any more time! Time was given to us as Spiritual Beings having a physical experience. Let's use time constructively! Let's manifest our own cooperative and collaborative community tsunami and make Philadelphia ground zero for Love, compassion, and higher consciousness. Let's model and walk the talk of a better world right here in our own backyard. I invite you all to be part of this historic paradigm shift. The time is NOW!

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

THE TIME IS NOW!

Now is the plan, plain and simple. No time to waste. Now is a theme that runs deep into most of our lives. If we took this attitude and approached each day as if there was no time to waste, our lives would probably be very different. And since the macro mirrors the micro, our relationships, our communities, our government, and our world would be very different. I am not suggesting here that we become obsessive compulsive, workaholics, eliminate our still time or taking care of ourselves, or not be present. What I am saying is it's time to stop the excuses, stop the languaging we use on ourselves, like, I will do this when this or that happens. The present moment is all we have. There are no other guarantees! What is important to you? If you are not engaging yourself in what is important to you then stop and reassess the way you live your life. Prioritize what is important, or what you need to do to participate in what is important to you.

I can feel the resistance already. If you are resisting then take a look at what you are resisting. Observe your rationalizations, and decide if you'd rather be right in justification or happy. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting each time a different result. Are you playing the DVD Groundhog Day in your own mind? Let me tell you this from my own experience and that of my patients, there will always be something! It's the nature of the ego and our defenses. The stuff doesn't just clear itself out and leave a block of space for us to live our passions. We have to clear the space ourselves. Nobody will do it for us. There is no magic formula. However, there is "The Secret." There is great stuff from James Ray International (www.jamesray.com). There is "The Way Of Mastery" (www.shantichristo.com). There is "Empowerment: The Art Of Creating Your Life As You Want It" by David Gershon & Gail Straub and "The Attractor Factor" by Joe Vitale.

Which do you want first, the good news or the bad news? Okay here's the good news. All of these resources can radically change your life and start you on the road to happiness and abundance in all areas of your life. Now for the bad news. These things do not work by themselves. It requires commitment and doing things in our lives qualitatively different!

What is important to you? What are you prioritizing right now as we speak? This is not to feel guilty or shameful, but to just observe and get clear on what is. People that are successful in all areas of their lives do things differently than the general population. They don't do more of "it", they experience thinking, feeling, and taking action qualitatively differently than most of us. That's why I'm listening to them and applying these principles in my life. The time is now! Take responsibility for your own life. Model that to others. If you do it will inspire them to change. It also is what motivates the world to change. So whatever you are unhappy about, think about what makes you happy and start moving towards it.

Remember, all you have is now. You may be surprised how special and sacred the now is when you experience it. So, what ever your passion is in life, whatever it is you want to change, now is the time! You may be surprised how much wasted time can be cut out of your life and freed up to move toward the things you love. Remember, this is not about doing more and more, and making list after list, and getting more tasks done. This is about taking committed action and tapping into your greatness. This is about being the Gods and Goddesses that we all are. This is about allowing our light to shine brightly. This is about letting go of old beliefs and ways of doing things and experiencing something totally different. The ironic part about all of this is that when you start being in your greatness and follow your heart, you might just get a lot more done with a fraction of the effort. You may also start to have happy attacks and engage in fun, laughter, and passion. Peace can also be a symptom of the happiness bug. It's time to make a difference in yourself. So, I ask you one more time, what is really important to you and what time is it? THE TIME IS NOW!

Featured Events

Holistic Integrative Breathing CDs

The New and Improved Holistic Integrative Breathing Guided CD Set One (3 CD Set, 6 tracks) and CD Set Two (3 CD Set, 6 tracks), are now available for purchase online!

For those of you who have taken my Holistic Integrative Breathing workshops, Transformational BreathWork workshops, or would like to learn how to do Holistic Integrative Breathing, my new and improved Guided CD Set's are now available! On CD Set One you will receive an Introduction, the Primal Drumming Breath 1, Joy Breath, Cosmos Breath, Divinity Breath, and Vision Breath with all the positive belief statements included. These are all the breaths I teach in my one day all day breath workshop. On CD Set 2 you will receive the Introduction, the Primal Drumming Breath 2, Compassion Breath, Unity Breath, Clarity Breath, and Soul Star Breath with all the positive belief statements included.

The cost is $40 plus $4.20 U.S priority shipping and handling for either CD Set One ($40 + $4.20 shipping) or CD Set Two ($40 + $4.20 shipping). You can purchase both CD Sets at the same time of purchase for $75 plus $4.20 shipping and handling. 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! Below is a description of the benefits you may receive from Holistic Integrative Breathing.

What Is Holistic Integrative Breathing?
The purpose of this type of breathing is to heal, balance, clear, and not to bring up past trauma. You will learn how to continuously breathe from your belly and move your energy through your body. Positive belief statements accompany this breathing process. Ideally, when our bottom three energy centers are clear and balanced and our top three energy centers are clear and balanced, we live in joy from the heart through unconditional love. You can truly integrate complimentary healing methods with the traditional and create your own personalized holistic practice to empower and heal yourself!

This is for people who want to experience:
Extra energy, increased mental clarity, a greater ability to solve problems, an efficient and healthier life, more, love, joy, forgiveness, compassion, and freedom, less stress, a creativity boost and expressing your truth, more balance, greater intuition, and a deeper connection with your spirituality.

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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