nothing doing

"Non-doing is, above all, an attitude of mind. It's a wish. It's a
decision to leave everything alone and see what goes on, see what
happens. Your breathing and your circulation and your postural
mechanisms are all working and taking over. The organism is
functioning in its automatic way, and you are doing nothing." "If
you're going to succeed in doing nothing, you must exercise control
over your thinking processes. You must really wish to do nothing. If
you're thinking anxious, worried thoughts, if you're thinking exciting
thoughts that are irrelevant to the situation at hand, you stir up
responses in your body that are not consistent with doing nothing.
It's not a matter of just not moving--that can lead to fixing or
freezing--it's a matter of really leaving yourself alone and letting
everything just happen and take over." "This is what we're aiming at
in an Alexander lesson, and if we're wise, and we understand, it's
also what we aim at in our own practice of non-doing. It is something
that requires practice. Like most other things in life, it isn't
some-thing that you can achieve by simply wishing to do so, by just
thinking, 'Well, I will now leave myself alone and not do anything.'
Unfortunately, it doesn't work out like that. The whole process
requires a lot of practice, and a lot of observation. Out of this
process a tremendous lot of experience is to be gained..." -- Walter
Carrington, Thinking Aloud, quoted in Practising Detachment by Mike
Cross, http://the-middle-way.org/subpage12.html