Different types of prayer

[Joseph73]

Is there a difference between contemplation and successive locution (inflamed intellect)?

I ask because I believe it feels very, very similar. Here is a great link I recently found about contemplation that describes similar problems I’ve been having with successive locution (i.e. I start to seek out the gift and that “feeling” rather than praising the giver who is God):

youtube.com/watch?v=6cEvJ4R4Qhc

I was wondering if anyone with experience could help to illuminate this. So far there are 3 prayer systems I’m trying to work with:

1. Ignatian discernment of spirits (consolation, desolation)
2. Vocal prayer, meditation, and contemplation
3. Successive locution, formal locution, and substantial locution (which are gifts and not to be seeked out)

I will copy and paste information and links as I find them. If anyone else has links, I can add them to the OP.

Ignatian discernment of spirits:
ignatianspirituality.com/making-good-decisions/discernment-of-spirits/
americancatholic.org/Newsletters/CU/preview.aspx?id=235
integratedcatholiclife.org/2012/08/randy-hain-finding-strength-in-surrender/

Vocal prayer, meditation, and contemplation:
vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p4s1c3a1.htm

Locutions:
forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=296723
forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=758109
sacred-texts.com/chr/tic/tic20.htm