Personal Growth Alternatives Newsletter
March 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 March 25, 2007: 5-7pm!!! Pot Luck Networking/Social After The Meeting Till 8pm!

ATTENTION!!!!, there will be a fourth mindstorming meeting on Sunday February 25, 2007 from 2pm-5pm at Rusty Stewart's 23 Timber Road, Horsham, PA 19044. Please be on time as the meeting will start promptly at 5pm. We have a lot to cover. We had 30 people at the last meeting! We are moving forward with more structure and energy. See the update bulletin to see the exciting progress we are making!! 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 Philadelphia area in 2007/2008. Please RSVP by email or call me at 609-332-4663 or 215-658-1093. Let's fill my living room up!! All are welcome to attend and share their ideas. There is a pot-luck networking/social after the meeting. Please read the update bulletin and the personal message for updates!

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), will be available for purchase online sometime in April/May 2007!

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 will be available in April/May 2007! 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 beginning of spring! 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 March 25, 2007: 5-7pm!!!
Potluck Networking/Social After The Meeting Till 8pm!

Location: Rusty Stewart's House, 23 Timber Road,
Horsham, PA 19044, Cell-609-332-4663

Personal Growth Alternatives Update Bulletin

Who Wants To Be A Part Of Personal Growth Alternatives: A Holistic, Healing, Education, And Community Spiritual Center?

We're looking for like-minded people with open hearts and high vibrational energy who resonate with Personal Growth Alternatives Purpose and Vision Statements.

Purpose, Vision, & Mission Statement

Purpose: To extend Love, compassion, and forgiveness through inclusion and seeing the oneness in all our brothers and sisters. To lead, teach, and continuously learn in partnership and relationship with myself and others. To experience having fun and extending joy in the world. To heal my mind and witness the Love that I am in myself and others.

Vision: To manifest community for all our brothers and sisters where diversity is celebrated and differences are honored and respected. To look for the commonality we share as human and spiritual beings. To forgive ourselves so we may be free to see the oneness in all our brothers and sisters and organically extend Love.

Mission: To manifest community through a healing and spiritual community center that welcomes everyone through extending Love. To create, deliver, and facilitate a diversity of psychoeducational personal growth workshops and groups. To guide and join with individuals and couples in healing mind, body, and spirit through the perennial philosophy, integrated spirituality, quantum physics thought retraining, integrated psychotherapy, energy healing, and the principles of "A Course in Miracles." To model non-competition, cooperation, abundance, and support for all our bothers and sisters products and services.

ATTENTION!!!! There will be a fourth mindstorming meeting on Sunday March 25, 2007 from 5pm-7pm at Rusty Stewart's 23 Timber Road, Horsham, PA 19044. Please be on time, as the meeting will start promptly at 5pm. We have a lot to cover. We had 30 people at the last meeting! We are moving forward with more structure and energy. I will send out a separate update bulletin in the next couple of days outlining the progress we made at the last meeting and highlight the structure and content of the next meeting on March 25th. We will be breaking up into groups to focus on more specific issues and continue this process between meetings. It's time to move forward and take action!!

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 Philadelphia area in 2007/2008. Please RSVP by email or call me at 609-332-4663 or 215-658-1093. Let's fill up my living room!! All are welcome to attend and share their ideas. There is a potluck networking/social after the meeting for those that wish to stay from 7-8pm.

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 business base. Other people can rent space out on a part-time as needed basis to create and grow their businesses. 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! Sound familiar? This was the theme in last months professional message. I am reiterating it because 30 people showed up for my Mindstorming meeting for manifesting our educational, healing, spiritual, and community center on Sunday the 25th. And many did not come because of the snow and ice. The transformation in consciousness is taking place. People are taking action. The paradigm shift is taking place NOW! Jump on our coat tails and apply the principles of Manifestation and "The Secret" to change and transform your lives! The buzzword I was hearing at our meeting was commitment and taking action. Nothing can happen differently unless you commit to yourself above everything else and take action differently! As we approach the spring equinox, it's time to spring into action and clean out any limiting and negative beliefs about ourselves and our world. Feng Shui yourself from the inside out and make space for the new.

Get out of your head and into your heart. The ego keeps us stuck. The intellect complicates and confuses. Follow your heart! Live with passion. Make a difference! Do whatever it takes to transform yourself to your highest potential as the Goddesses and Gods that we all are. If somebody tries to bring you down, or says you are crazy, or doesn't like the changes in you, detach from them and understand that you are doing something healthy for yourself. You will challenge the status quo. They will feel threatened. We are all mirrors for each other. Once and for all answer this question and make a committed decision. Am I going to live my life for me or other people? Once you make that decision then ask yourself. Will this truly deep down bring me joy and happiness? Am I following my heart? Am I committed to myself and am I willing to take action to create my life the way I truly want it? Spend some time reflecting on these questions in your meditations. 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

A Vehicle And Model For Paradigm Transformation!

I do believe this article is way overdue. I've been holding back because I want others to be a part of this conversation and dialogue. And they have. But not to the extent that I was hoping for. So as a leader in the community I am putting out there what I envision as a vehicle and model for paradigm transformation! For those of you who have been following my newsletters and emails, I and other community leaders are manifesting an educational, healing, spiritual, and community center in the Philadelphia area. We need it! It's time! However, this is much more than just a center. Let me explain.

The paradigm of capitalism and competition, the way it is currently practiced in this country, does not work! Why? Because it is a scarcity model. It is Darwinian. It promotes the survival of the fittest. Or should I say the survival of who can get their share of the limited pie at any cost. The result is the haves and the have-nots, a rapidly deteriorating environment, vanishing natural resources, attachment to things, war inside and outside our country, and largely a consciousness of apathy, indifference, ambivalence, victimization, helplessness, denial, fear, and pessimism. Is it any wonder there is such a sharp polarization in this country. So who is right and who is wrong? Nobody! Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy, because you can't have both?

So here's the beginning of a conversation for something different. I encourage your participation and contribution. This is just what I have accumulated over the years by listening to other people. Remember, there are no original thoughts! This holistic educational, healing, spiritual, and community center will be founded on the following principles: Love (the absence of the illusion of fear), abundance, cooperation and promotion of all (other centers and community talents), including people in the community that are not directly involved with the center (non-competition), inclusion (all are welcome at the center), sustainability (environmentally green), horizontal organization structure (collaboration in decision making), partnerships with other centers and organizations (possible revenue sharing and joint ventures and events), memberships (clustered services and programs), community outreach, trade work programs, integrated spirituality (the absence of dogma), diversity, peace initiatives, social justice, a safe haven, and other various profit centers (healthy café and bookstore, etc.). This is not an exhaustive list by any means.

The idea is to create and manifest an experience that raises the vibration of consciousness and models the transformation of a financially successful and organically holistic paradigm structure that extends the healing power of Love, abundance, and oneness! There can be no compromise! This paradigm is the only direction that makes sense given the shortcomings and results produced by all the other economic models and mindsets of the past. Will you join us?

I am reminded of the power of the mind and our thoughts by the movie “The Secret.” I just returned from James Ray's “Harmonic Wealth Weekend!” What a powerful seminar!
I encourage everyone to check out his website and enroll in his workshops. Much of my work is heavily influenced by “The Secret” and James Ray's material. After last weekend, I'm convinced that anything is possible if we focus our mindset and follow the recipe for abundance in all areas of our lives! This center is a thought (idea) that will happen and manifest to the beat of a new paradigm. Please consider joining our efforts anyway you can! I look forward to the exciting new challenges that await us! I commit to stretching and positioning myself on the teetering edge as I move into my greatness and grow the Christ within. I am Christ Shiva Das!

Peace and Love to All,

Rusty (Christ Shiva Das)

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), will be available for purchase online by late April/May!

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