An ancient teaching interpreted for us by Gregg Braden says that when prayer creates a "feeling within our hearts as if the prayer has already been answered and giving thanks and appreciation for that prayer having been answered" it taps a energy which permeates the universe. This energy is within us and surrounds us. He further explains that "quantum physicists tell us that it's the quality of feeling that sets up the quantum process that allows the feeling in our bodies to affect the physical matter beyond our bodies." But, as he puts it "we dont have to know that -- all we have to do is feel the feeling."