From: "Gary Britt" 

Yes I agree.  Manual work can actually be mentally relaxing.  And does free
the mind to pay attention to other things.

Gary

"Don Hills"  wrote in message
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> In article , "Gary Britt"
 wrote:
> >   ...                 However, if I'm focusing on the wording for
creating
> >or understanding a complicated document, I can't even tolerate this kind
of
> >background noise.
>
> My wife uses gardening as relaxation therapy - it's a physical activity,
not
> a mental one. I suspect your wife does too. It's easy to follow threads in
> talk radio while gardening. I've just spent a couple of weeks helping my
> mother clear 45 years of detritus out of the family home in preparation
for
> selling it. She's a talk radio fan too, and that's what we had as
background
> while we worked. I found it easy to follow the threads myself while
> performing mechanical sorting work.
>
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