lock picking and you

a book about lock picking taught me more about the world. it explains that in order to truly be good at picking a lock, one should seperate themself from their body and concentrate only on the insides of the lock, as if you were inside of it. Basically, you want to project your senses into the lock to receive a full picture of how it's responding to your manipulations. We've all used this power, working with something small, moving something in the dark, or err, picking a lock!
You put your mind inside, you feel the inner workings, you block out the world around you. Using both your hearing and your touch as secondary to your inner feeling of the mechanism, what a complex series of actions for something we all do. Perhaps it comes from childhood, tediously assembling toy batman's arms inside of his torso. bam! the lock opens, robin's loins pop into place, you find the remote buried under the couch and so ends your mysterious power. your ability to see with something other than your eyes dissipates, and you move on. But what if? What if you could take that power, invert it to your entire life!? Not feeling oneself (teehee *sNoCoNeS*!) in the world, but feeling the world around yourself. Suddenly, all your senses are secondary to the feelings of the movement of the earth. You could see yourself as tangable, breakable, alive. Want nothing more.