"Simplify, Simplify." Henry David Thoreau

Noticing seems to burden you with yet one more thing to think about when you are trying to get things done. The truth is, Noticing lightens your thinking load; here's how. First, by inhibiting your habitual response, you trigger the postural reflexes. This allows your body to freely adapt to the unique demands of what you're doing at that moment. Under the umbrella of Noticing, your body unlearns some of the habit patterns that get in the way. As a result, you move more easily and release excess tension, which is actually excess TENSING, a verb, not a noun. It's frozen excess motion; much like a fist actively being clenched or opposing muscle groups playing tug-of-war with each other.

But this excess motion is also excess "thinking"; because before you can overdo a movement, you first have to over-think it. Noticing induces simplified thinking. It opens a gap in your habits so that your intrinsic intelligence can come foward. This vast intelligence has evolved through countless species over millions of years and is a lot smarter about movement than we are. By Noticing, we bow to this superior intelligence and so take advantage of its power. As a result, effort is distributed more equitably, we have more freedom and flexibility and we experience more ease. So, although Noticing seems to complicate things at the start it greatly simplifies things in the end because instead of doing more thinking when you stop to Notice, you are actually doing less, quite a bit less in fact. Thoreau would approve.