Reply To: Speaking out loud to Hashem, yourself, or your yetzer hara

Very beneficial. The Breslover chassidim spend a lot of time every day talking to HKBH as they would talk to a friend, in their native language. Rav Nachman used to repeat “Ribono shel olam,” repeatedly, before davening. If you try it (I have), you’ll have the most emotional tefillah experience you probably ever had. But in order for it to work, you have to do it for – at the very LEAST – a few minutes. It’s definitely worth it, though.