Making Davening Meaningful - Part 2

Nitzotzos: Thoughts to keep your spark alive

At the end of last week's answer about improving our davening, Rav Burg said that if we are silent for a little bit then we may be able to hear our self conscious answer. Honestly, I feel like if we did that we would always hear the answer we want to hear because we penetrate our minds to say it. How does this work?