How does one visualize elements of standard Iwasawa algebra?

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How does one think of elements of standard Iwasawa algebra of a profinite abelian group $B$ ? I mean like elements of $Z_{p}$ are represented as infinite series, is there a way to think of elements of standard Iwasawa algebra? The definition of Iwasawa algebra itself is horrendous and to think of doing topology on it is overwhelming to me. Thanks!!! ($Z_{p}$ is the ring of p-adic integers)