That's good feedback, thanks!
I am guilty as charged. My wife thinks I am crazy, but I like everything on my desk and fiddle with them throughout the day. I am sure coworkers wonder what the snapping sound is on conference calls when opening and closing implements. I am sure I am crazy too.
I don't think it's crazy. I remember a famous tai chi teacher once commenting that practicing a tai chi form is a type of simplified consciousness - you are paying attention to the moves of a set routine and trying to do them properly according to a set of rules. This is a kind of focusing on a limited task which is a sort of rest from our normal monkey mind darting about, worrying and thinking of a million things.Likewise SAK fiddling is a sort of simplified mind: you are inspecting the knife, opening the tools, being careful not to cut yourself, considering the relationship of this knife to other models, remembering something about the history of this particular knife, etc. Like a meditation. Like the original meaning of yoga, your mind is 'yoked' to the form of the tool, its operation, etc.
^^^ Yes very, very interesting - Not thought of it that way before - But makes absolute sense Just like these executive stress relieving fiddling toys - Squishy balls and rotating trinkets etcNow I have an excuse for the wife/boss !! "I need SAKs, and to fiddle with SAKs, for my mental health!! "