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29 Feb 2008, 3:18 pm

livinglearning wrote:
When I read the thread title I thought it referred to the kinds of things that SilverProteus and marmotta do, not collecting/organizing. I have some things that I like to visualize when I'm stressed out.

I see what you mean.
The constant and repetitive motion and mental activity of looking at a card and determining where in the series it belongs and putting it there, repeating for hundreds of cards. In this case it isn't purely mental, but isn't purely physical like tapping my fingers is. It is the mental placement of the card alphabetically or numerically that kept me doing it. The physical card movement just allowed me to progress and complete the organization so that I could begin again.