I have pretty bad levels of proprioception so I HAVE to conciously think of where my arms or legs are supposed to go for quite a while until I learn what to do (and for a good while thereafter). If I don't understand where my body parts are supposed to go in detail and how they should move then I'm a lost cause!
Starting skating again has helped improve my body awareness no end! I now don't fall over my feet just walking along a couple of times a week! Oddly I've fallen less on or off the ice in the past 2 years (since I've been back on the ice) than in an average 2 months before I started back.
Unfortunately there is a limit to the numbers of things I can think about and still remember to do so my poor coach has to contend with me utterly forgetting my arms while I'm trying to fix my legs for something.
She is also frequently amazed as I have to ask her what my body is doing as I have no idea. I often can't tell which leg I just did something on nor where my free leg was at all!
I really need to get over my hate of being video-ed as I think that would really help me. I often
know what I need to do but have no idea where to start as I have no idea what I actually do!
I also tend to overthink things that scare me...
The only time I have a sense of "feeling" something in skating terms is when I manage to do something I used to be able to do as a kid. When I (rarely!) hit the correct bit of my blade trying to backspin, or that one glorious day last November (when my loop was suddenly easy, had height and landed on 1 foot with flow out of it)... it feels really familiar! Sadly I rarely have an idea how or what I did to get there so can't repeat it...
It just gets me even more frustrated as I know I
can do it!
Oh well it is all part of the challenge that is skating!