Teach them to estimate the value of each prayer by their success in producing the desired feeling; and never let them suspect how much success or failure of that kind depends on whether they are well or ill, fresh or tired, at the moment.
Wow. The enemy does have a way to allow us to drown in our own imagination and standards of what a spiritual experience should look like. But what we forget is that prayer is an already powerful act in itself, and it's actually God who does the work!
