Don't think about it. Just walk. Your body and feet know what to do.

Um, if that were true, then no one would trip or fall on the trail. blush

It would be closer to the truth to say that, if you start out by thinking out what to do, paying attention to what works and consciously training yourself to follow the right way, then gradually your mind will absorb the necessary patterns and replicate them without much, or any, effort.

For example, a great NBA player can "get into the zone" and "play out of his head", but that's just because he has practised his moves and his shot for thousands upon thousands of hours. Hand a basketball to a novice and they could never do that, especially by expecting their hands and feet to automatically know what to do.

Sure, almost anyone can walk if they are not disabled, and generally they will get somewhere, but getting high efficiency is not quite as simple as you make it out to be.