Clearly, this is an important issue to you, and something that's helped you tremendously.
For me, though, tefillah has always been something I need to work on. This is very possibly connected to the bad experiences I had in high school, but it's something that I
have been working on, and I try to improve. Nonetheless, it's not something that I can count on for inspiration, or something that I feel an immediate response to.
I do daven every day for hashem to help me with this struggle, and - well, so far, so good. But is it in response to my davening for it? I'm sure that it helps, on an intellectual level, but I don't FEEL it. I daven for it, largely as a way of showing hashem that it's important to me.