Personal Growth Alternatives Newsletter
April 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 VISION Meeting
Sunday April 29, 2007: 4-7pm!!! Pot Luck Networking/Social After The Meeting Till 8pm!

ATTENTION!!!!, there will be a Mindstorming VISION meeting on Sunday April 29, 2007 from 4pm-7pm at Rusty Stewart's 23 Timber Road, Horsham, PA 19044. Please be on time as the meeting will start promptly at 4pm. We are creating a vision for the center and will need the entire three hours for this process. We had 40 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 from 7-8pm. Please read the update bulletin 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 patients 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 patient 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 VISION Meeting
Sunday April 29, 2007: 4-7pm!!! 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 Mindstorming VISION meeting on Sunday April 29, 2007 from 4pm-7pm at Rusty Stewart's 23 Timber Road, Horsham, PA 19044. Please be on time as the meeting will start promptly at 4pm. We are creating a vision for the center and will need the entire three hours for this process. Here is a rough draft of the vision statement as a starting point to grow:

VISION STATEMENT

We create and hold a spiritual safe and sacred space where intimacy, connection, and re-awakening flourish within the center and community. We provide holistic healing, education, integrated spirituality, and community through a diverse array of classes, programs, support groups, and events. We partner with other centers and organizations in creating a new paradigm web of non-competition and promotion of everyone! We practice, model, and teach this successful abundant financial transformative paradigm with all individuals, cultures, businesses, and organizations worldwide.

We model and promote abundance, prosperity, gratitude, cooperation, collaboration, inclusion, empowered humility, diversity, social justice, equality, holistic integration, and having fun! We model environmental sustainability through our green building and environmentally conscious decisions. The for-profit part of our center is a cooperative economic partnership with a horizontal organizational structure. The non-profit part of our center provides opportunities for grant funding and other services to offer and extend into the community. Everything we do as a center is an extension of Love!

We manifest our vision through extending Love, forgiveness, compassion, and peace while experiencing and respecting the commonality and oneness of all life, energy, and consciousness. The results of our vision manifest through the brightness of people's light and re-experiencing themselves as Love!

A rough draft of the mission and purpose statement will be forthcoming. We had 40 people at the last meeting! We are moving forward with more structure and energy. 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 from 7-8pm.

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 spiritual community 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 am welcoming all interested people and practitioners for an open dialogue until a core group organically manifests itself. Commitment of vision, mission, 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 and educating 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

Replay, ditto! Something big is happening! Sound familiar, again? This was the theme in last months professional message and the month before that. I am reiterating it because 40 people showed up for my Mindstorming meeting for manifesting our educational, healing, spiritual, and community center on Sunday the 25th of March. We have had over 100 people express interest in participating in such a center in some capacity since last October. The transformation in consciousness and paradigm shift is taking place NOW! People are taking action. Jump on our coat tails and apply the principles of Manifestation and “The Secret” to change and transform your lives! We are in the visioning process in our meetings. Once the vision and mission are created we're full speed ahead to committed manifestation gestation. Nothing will stop us with a passionate dream vision springing us in cooperative action! And the purpose or unlimited fuel that propels us is the extension of Love!

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 Part II: My Vision!

I'm going to start off with a rough draft of the vision statement for this holistic educational, spiritual, and healing community center. As a writer I am aware this may be one in a line of many rough drafts, but this is how our dreams and visions are seeded. This is a result of my intent! This vision statement will be worked on in the next month or so by myself and partners in the community. So here is the first rough draft:

VISION STATEMENT

We create and hold a safe spiritual and sacred space where intimacy, connection, and re-awakening flourish within the center and community. We provide holistic healing, education, integrated spirituality, and community through a diverse array of classes, programs, support groups, and events. We partner with other centers and organizations in creating a new paradigm web of non-competition and promotion of everyone! We practice, model, and teach this successful abundant financial transformative paradigm with all individuals, cultures, businesses, and organizations worldwide.

We model and promote abundance, prosperity, gratitude, cooperation, collaboration, consensus, inclusion, empowered humility, diversity, social justice, equality, holistic integration, joy, and having fun! We model environmental sustainability through our green building and environmentally conscious decisions. The for-profit part of our center is a cooperative economic partnership with a horizontal organizational structure. The non-profit part of our center provides opportunities for grant funding and other services to offer and extend into the community. Everything we do as a center is an extension of Love!

We manifest our vision through extending Love, forgiveness, compassion, and peace while experiencing and respecting the commonality and oneness of all life, energy, and consciousness. The results of our vision manifest through the brightness of everyone's light and re-experiencing ourselves as the Love we are!

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, spiritual, and healing 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.

I left the above part of the first article in this article to clarify my intent in the vision statement and stimulate dialogue and feedback. I am excited and energized as this new baby is in the visioning process right now. Once the vision, mission, and purpose are created the center will enter the incubation period of manifestation. Please come along for the continuous ride of your life. It is indeed the ride of Love! It is Living and Owning the Christ we all are! All we have to do is ask for the obstacles of the ego to be removed and "your wish is my command!" OUR CENTER IS A DONE DEAL!!! LET'S CELEBRATE!!!

Peace and I Extend Love to all of you,

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