If you were..

If you were to listen to Michael Steven's talk...

and then imagine a visual representation of the changing sounds over time...

and then plot various emotions people may have felt in times of war throughout history along that visual representation...

and then imagine some force creating a physical sensation up one of your legs that grooved with the same cadence as those emotions...

could you then take this compound metaphor and imagine it as a type of staff or sword?

And then draw an analogy between the imagining time based occurrences as a physical object and seeing your anxiety as manageable?