According to a research paper by recovery expert Sabine Sonnentag from 2007, there are four major factors of true recovery: mental detachment from work, relaxation, control, and mastery experiences.
“You’re out there on the edge, you’re out there on the sharp end of a rope, and you’re hyper-conscious of the world,” he says. “It’s a form of meditation because you are engaged to such an extent with the world, with the environment, you have to pay such attention to every little unevenness in the rock, that your inner voice – this constant critic that’s always in your head – is completely silent.”
“You’re out there on the edge, you’re out there on the sharp end of a rope, and you’re hyper-conscious of the world,” he says. “It’s a form of meditation because you are engaged to such an extent with the world, with the environment, you have to pay such attention to every little unevenness in the rock, that your inner voice – this constant critic that’s always in your head – is completely silent.”
This looks like a Flow-like experience (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology) which in turn is an experience that can also apply when playing
Play and productivity seem to have a curious relationship!
... absolutely Mark!