Prayer is the eternal activity of the soul. The soul is always connected with God, and prayer is a way to strengthen and develop this connection. To feel the result of prayer practice, you need to understand how to pray correctly.
The best prayer is morning
It is very important. Of course, there are no time prohibitions for prayer, but the best time is morning. If we really want to feel the answer from God, his presence in our life, we need to prove our desire to him. It can be proved very simply: we have determined for ourselves the time during which we will chant the holy names every day. For example, two hours. And we do it at one time, in the morning, without stretching this time for the whole day. This will help you immerse yourself in prayer more than repeating for a few minutes throughout the day. And most importantly, the Lord will be pleased if he sees that we are making such efforts for his sake, and will certainly answer us.
Also in the morning, the time itself helps to immerse oneself in prayer: before sunrise and for some time after it, goodness is poured in the air. This is a special time when the mind is not yet very restless and it is easier to plunge into prayer. If you start chanting the holy names only in the morning for 1, 5-2 hours, you can see how much your inner state and your whole life will change.
You need to find something that helps you personally.
What can help prayer practice? Reading scriptures and stories about the lives of saints, listening to a saintly person, sacred music, communicating with the devotees of God in your spiritual tradition. These are all ways to ignite the desire to do spiritual practice in yourself. After all, only in contact with God, feeling a connection with Him, receiving communication (in different forms) from holy people, will we be able to understand the meaning of our life.
There is one powerful way to further increase inspiration along the way. Celebrate what inspires you the most! And start doing it all the time. It sounds a little too simple, but it is undoubtedly the best rule for enthusiasm in the spiritual life. Accept what is favorable. If you enjoy certain lectures and your prayer is getting better and more attentive, listen to them! I like and inspire to read about the life of a saint before going to bed - read it! Everyone who walks this path should have a few things that are very inspiring. After which prayer becomes better, spiritual emotions and realizations come. And by focusing on these things, we will help ourselves to always have a taste for spiritual practice.
It is also worth avoiding things that interfere with the practice of prayer. In the same way, one should keep track of actions that adversely affect prayer and try to avoid them. Maybe this is bad communication, after which a critical mood in relation to others, maybe it's a late dinner. Each person can track what helps and what hinders him. Using this, he will greatly help himself to develop a connection with God through prayer and make his life perfect in all respects.
