I am aware of the world’s view of such a feeling as emotional, or the result of a willful or a frenzied mind. Something that we can just cause to come about up when we need validation.
However, my life experience has taught me otherwise. Through numerous experiences to long to relate completely here, I have learned that the Lord is in absolute control of that feeling. There have been many times when I desired to feel it with all my heart, but felt nothing, other times when I observed others feeling it, but was left empty, other times when I have felt it in unison with another person, still others when I was not even seeking for it, and it has come upon me testifying of truth, or witnessing to my soul that I was in the right place, hearing truth, under God's care, or simply acting in a way that was pleasing unto the Lord.
There have been times where I have intended to bless a person with health, having full faith in their recovery and the power of the Priesthood to bring it about…… only to be stopped in mid-sentence and filled with the tingling, power filled, direction leading me to bless them to set the lives in order and to have peace in preparation for their inevitable death. As a Bishop I have waited, suffered, plead, sometimes for months and even to the point of embarrassment, waiting for that spirit to confirm a choice for a calling or at least guide me to a better choice. Other times, when not even thinking about callings I would suddenly feel the tingling power testify to me that the person I just saw walk into the chapel was to be called to a certain position.
I know absolutely that the Holy Spirit is real, its burnings are wonderful, reassuring, and sanctifying, and they are completely under the control of God.