Try to ignore the sensations and thoughts that are not related to the lock. Don't try to focus on the lock. Each lock has it's own special characteristics which make picking harder or easier. Basically, you want to analyze the feedback you get from the lock to diagnose it's personality traits and then use your experience to decide on an approach to open a lock. Chapter 9 discusses a large number of common traits and ways to exploit or overcome them.
People underestimate the analytic involved in lock picking.
They think that the picking tool opens the lock. To them the torque wrench is a passive tool that just puts the lock under the desired stress. Let me propose another way to view the situation. The pick is just running over the pins to get information about the lock. Based on an analysis that information the torque is adjusted to make the pins set at the sheer line.