Nate,
Your experience is common amongst people first starting out doing PR ... I was in the same boat. Still am, but it take's persistence and time to win!
My first feeling was ... ah dang, nothing happened! But something did happen. I was exposed to PR for the first time! Although fireworks did not go off ... I know I was on the road to mastery. You will be too, if you can practice and stick with it!
The secret is to be able to 'listen' to what your body and intuition are telling you. This is the sub-conscious mind trying to convey what the answer is to you.
One day you'll come back to tell us your success story ... in time, in time!
Humbily,
Michael Saikali