Ultimately, like much of Judaism, authentic Kabbalistic meditation is about developing an understanding of healthy boundaries—between self and others, heaven and earth, divine and mundane; and through a deeper understanding of these boundaries, come to understand what true unity is. This is one of its possible benefits to the psychotherapy process.

Josthna says yoga and TM aren’t marketed as religious, but spiritual, by what we’ll call the “Yoga industry” and the “TM industry”. She says that’s because the word “religion” makes Westerners nervous and that the original gurus saw the tide turning against religion in the 1960s so “repackaged” these practices!

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Since meditation became acceptable in the West (beginning in a big way in the 1960s with the Beatles’ introduction of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, their soon-to-be dumped guru), the types of meditation available to even the most casual seeker have multiplied rapidly.

Creating comic strips for syndication was a my first real test of wit; needing to write and draw a funny cartoon every day of every week, each year, whether sick or tired, etc. So now, when a client or publisher calls with a deadline a few days away, it’s a breeze in comparison.

a recent Business Week article, a new ADHD study is brought to light. Researchers at Stony Brook University School of Medicine in NY says that by paying more attention to dosing and taking the time to get just the right dosage, ADHD medications such as Ritalin can “significantly reduce or eliminate aggressive behavior” in at least 50 percent of very agressive kids.

Judaism, (Christianity and Islam agree), says that God didn’t just create the world and then settle down to watch the show, but that He is continually and actively involved in the world He created. In fact, God’s involvement, according to the Kabbalastic sages, has a stunning and profound component that actually has implications for the therapy process: Creation is ongoing, constant, and continual. This has important implications for personal change and the process of psychotherapy.

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Cartoonist Mark Hill

It seems that therapy is a frequent subject for cartoons—the most famous perhaps being Charles Schultz’s “The Shrink is In” cartoons which really hit home with so many mental health professionals and patients, even to this day.

Cartoonist and illustrator Mark Hill*, whose work has been published in over 100 magazines and newspapers including Time Magazine, Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, and others has created cartoons about our favorite Therapy Soup topic.

One of us is a “Bubble Wrap” popper and the other, well, let’s say shrieking cats scratching their untrimmed claws on a blackboard in a construction work zone would be soothing compared to the effect those little plastic poppers have.