As Above, Slightly Different Below

Not the Right Kind of Lever

It will take energy to shift the psychological mass created by your addiction, and the energy will have to come from some unfamiliar direction, because the ‘you’ that started out is not you that exists now.

‘You’ have been changed, your brain chemistry altered by the same addictive behavior cycle that has produced the mass of negativity that exists, unseen by the outside world, within your character.

You now will have to find a new way to get the energy needed to lever away the stone.

In the ‘seen’ world of physical reality, the simple tool that has been used through history to great effect is called the class 1 lever. Monuments from Stonehenge, Easter Island, and Egypt testify to its ability to move huge amounts of mass with only human energy as the motivator.

But since the internal mass exists ‘under’ the surface of physical reality, amidst the neurons and hormones that turn your thoughts, impulses, and drives into feelings and action, the tools and energy required to move it must be able to function there, in the ‘insubstantial’ world of your inner self.

In the substantial ‘outer’ world, the parts of the Class 1 lever must also have substance, like real-to-the-touch wood, metal, and stone. Try moving a boulder, or even a pebble, just by thinking about it…nothing doing.

The Kid has it Correct

But jam one end of the arm of the lever under its edge, lay the lever across the top of the fulcrum, use some force and…movement.

In the insubstantial ‘inner’ world, the parts of the lever must, accordingly, be without physical form themselves, but the basic principle of using a lever to move mass remains the same.