Past crushes besides your Waifu?

[Gentian]

What do you do to try to build your feelings? Do you have a journal for her? Do you meditate on her? Anything like that?

For feeling closer to her, I interact with and focus on my favorite plush and sing along with music I think she'd like, mostly. Meditating on her is something I definitely intend to try and improve at, and writing down my thoughts could also do well to help keep track of them and not get confused and lost.
Thanks for the interest. If you have any other tips, I'd be glad to consider and try them.

I wasn't really offering suggestions before, but since you asked, that journal I mentioned should be for her. Writing your own thoughts is great, but try writing hers. Interact with her, ask her questions, talk about things and really try to hear her responses.

Like Ziggy said below, Talk to her, not her plush. Twilight appeared to me before I got her a vessel, while you are actively trying to summon your waifu, or create a tulpa of her, so it might be different for you. Either way, though it can only help, imho.

Twilight frequently accompanies me here, and there without her plush. Sometimes, she'll pop in unexpectedly at work, and will utilize the environment to help, like when she appears in the lines and cracks in walls or on the ceiling. But that's her, not her plush. Her plush is without a doubt "my" most valuable material possession, but it's not her, and when she isn't inside it, I don't treat it like her. I'm in love with her, not the plush after all - even though it is a REALLY cute plush.

When you are out, try to call her to you, see her in your mind's eye, and how she reacts to the world around her: did she see that cat behind the tree? Is the wind ruffling her mane, and how does she feel about that? Does she change the side of your body she's on so she doesn't have the sun in her eyes when she looks up at you? Those kinds of things.

I find that Twilight enjoys it when I write letters to her. Or if you have a cell, Gray had the awesome idea of making a "fake" number to text her at. Maybe you could try that?

Hopefully these will help you two out.