This is a great esssay Illmatic - thanks for posting it!
Phil Hine also describes the technique of Do Easy in Condensed Chaos. He must have borrowed the idea from Burroughs:
As an extension of relaxation training, examine any action that you make, no matter how simple, and find the easiest way of doing it. Apply this method to everyday actions - dressing, undressing, picking up objects, performing routine tasks. You will find yourself expending much less energy, and being aware of what you are doing, rather than 'rushing' through a task while your thoughts are projecting into a future beyond the task. When you touch something, pay attention to the brush of your fingers upon it, feel the object through your fingers and move it with just the right amount of energy. Look at objects with a cool appraisal and visualise what you want to do with it and find the easiest way to do it.
Do Easy exercises demonstrate how we classify tasks as boring or routine, acts to be stumbled through as we project ourselves into a more interesting future. Direct the attention into actions that we usually think are unworthy of consideration; opening a door, picking up a glass, slicing bread. There is an Easy way to Do everything and anything. We are unusually unaware of performing simple tasks until something happens which hampers us. |
