With something as important as prayer in Christianity, we Christians should have reasonable expectation that if praying to Jesus were an instruction, it would have been stated just as clearly as it is stated in regards to praying to the Father in Matthew 6:6,9. The alternative is that God, the prophets, Jesus, the disciples must have forgotten to inform us what to do or they didn't find it necessary to talk about.Actually he showed you where you were wrong.
With that being said, do you pray like how Jesus taught in Matthew 6:6,9?