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Originally Posted by Jill 
However, I'm not sure that most people would know how to do that, and would actually be faking it if they tried.
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Yes, Jill they would fake it. At first. Then they will get better at it.
But I don't think faking is the useful way to speak about it. The word fake, has a negative meaning of deceit. If we say a person is faking it, we think that his intention is different from whatever he is declaring.
Suppose a person wants to become consciously passionate and fails because he is not skilled enough. Is he faking? I don't think so.
He would be faking if he fails but claims that he is succeeding.
He would be faking if he strongly believes that it is not possible to be passionate by will, but claims that he is able to do it in public.
But if a person says: "I believe it is possible, and I want to give it a try, expecting lousy results at first", - I think, this is as genuine as it gets.