But that's not how your body works, is it? Do you have to think consciously to yourself about moving your legs when you are walking? Even when you are running

But that's not how your body works, is it? Do you have to think consciously to yourself about moving your legs when you are walking? Even when you are running or dodging around complicated obstacles? Do you have to think about breathing? When you read are you thinking about the form of each letter and mentally going "ok, that's a T, oh, and that's an H, and hey here's an E, and then a space, that must be the word 'THE', ok, moving on..."? No, parts of your brain seamlessly and automatically do all that work for you, even though sometimes it can be complex work requiring your higher cognitive abilities. For example, if you are reading a hand written note and there is a word that is hard to read your brain fills in a huge amount of context and filters out and in potential possibilities and you can even consciously make a choice on which word is the most likely, but it can all happen quickly and smoothly with the workings that happen automatically doing so without you even being aware of them or how they operate. That's how your brain works. It's not a matter of a simple machine with a little homunculus pulling at levers, it's a conscious part married to a whole lot of little unconscious parts. In order to learn something (like typing or reading or walking or rock climbing or driving or baseball) you need to use repetition to train up the unconscious parts. Incidentally, it's also why techniques such as meditation are so powerful, because they allow you a degree of meta-control over your mind. Because not only are actions like walking or typing mostly unconscious so are things like mood and state of mind. But you can train yourself to control those aspects just as you can train yourself to walk a different way.