Response to Carolyn and Moonlight

Dear Carolyn and Moonlight,
I think it is premature to answer your questions directly. Rather, let us clarify the principle upon which the previous post was built. This requires that we retrace our steps back to Matt's original question.
The pasuk Matt quotes from the beginning of the Mishne Torah
מְשֹׁךְ חַסְדְּךָ, לְיֹדְעֶיךָ; וְצִדְקָתְךָ, לְיִשְׁרֵי-לֵב תהילים לו,יא indeed implies two separate relationships to Hashem- Matt wishes to know what these two relationships are. However, what we should explore first is a prior question, implicit in the overall statement of our master Rabbenu Moshe. Whatever יֹדְעֶיךָ and יִשְׁרֵי-לֵב are, it is clear that the baal tehillim is engaged in a sort of tefilla. He is requesting from Hashem to bestow good upon man or more specifically: "draw חַסְדְּךָ and צִדְקָתְךָ on the respective elements of mankind". We noted this guidance to first orient oneself to Chochmas Hashem through the prism of tefilla long ago, when we first noted it as the first lesson of Ralbag in his Hakdama to the Torah.It is this tefilla orientation to Chochmas Hashem that our master, Rabbenu Moshe, is guiding us to adopt prior to talmud torah utilizing his Mishne Torah.
Rabbenu Moshe drives this lesson home in the Moreh Nevuchim, once again in part III chapter LI where he gives the mashal of the servants whose "faces" are either turned to seek the sovereign or away from the sovereign.

We must bear in mind that all such religious acts as reading the Law, praying, and the performance of other precepts, serve exclusively as the means of causing us to occupy and fill our mind with the precepts of God, and free it from worldly business; for we are thus, as it were, in communication with God, and undisturbed by any other thing. If we, however, pray with the motion of our lips, and our face toward the wall, but at the same time think of our business; if we read the Law with our tongue, whilst our heart is occupied with the building of our house, and we do not think of what we are reading; if we perform the commandments only with our limbs, we are like those who are engaged in digging in the ground, or hewing wood in the forest, without reflecting on the nature of those acts, or by whom they are commanded, or what is their object. We must not imagine that [in this way] we attain the highest perfection; on the contrary, we are then like those in reference to whom Scripture says, "you are near in their mouth, and far from their heart" (Jer. xii. 2).

I will now commence to show you the way how to educate and train yourselves in order to attain that great perfection.

The first thing you must do is this: Turn your thoughts away from everything while you read Shema‘ or during the Tefilláh, and do not content yourself with being devout when you read the first verse of Shema, or the first paragraph of the prayer. When you have successfully practised this for many years, try in reading the Law or listening to it, to have all your heart and all your thought occupied with understanding what you read or hear.