Prayer positions us to look to God. This can provide powerful results in our life. For when we look to God, we find God resting in our lap. Thomas Keating teaches this in his practice of Centering Prayer. In his lifelong discovery of what self, Thomas concluded that we only need to approach God or look to God and by doing so, God comes all the way to us. 
There are two sides of prayer. One side is that we talk with God and the other side is that we listen. In this podcast I will go deeper into these two sides.