Focused presence - intention - love - embodiment through breath 
The 4 steps to the energy healing modality called Quantum touch
In the book, The New Human - Quantum-Touch 2, by Richard Gorden, he says:
Your very essence is love – the rock doesn’t have to try to be more rock-like, and water doesn't have to try and be wetter; we do not have to try to have more essence of love. We can, however, endeavor to discover and acknowledge how much love there really is.
Chassidus teaches that all people possess within their hearts a deep wellspring of love, prayer was intended as the process of falling back into and revealing this love.
In the Zohar it states, 'there is no Avoda, like the Avoda of love.'
In Shemos 23:25 it states, 'when you do your Avoda to Hashem, He will bless your bread and your water, and remove sickness from within you.'
What is Avoda?
Taanis 2a says it is Tefilla (prayer), likkutei Moharan 9:1 say Emunah (a felt sense of the divine) is Tefilla (prayer), Baal Shem Tov al Hatorah says, it is an experience of being surrounded by light on all sides and really feeling it. 
So is prayer intended to be:
Focused presence - intention - and an embodied, felt sense of love in one's heart? 
Is this the channel that draws down healing and abundance?
It seems so. With one added step. knowing it already is.
In Keser Shem Tov it says that this is the most important part of prayer. 
In a talk by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, he says this belief is the vessel that draws forth abundance and healing.
https://www.chabad.org/therebbe/article_cdo/aid/2295026/jewish/A-Knowing-Heart-Parshas-Shmos.htm
How does one embody love and belief? How does one maintain focus or set an intention? Quantum touch taught me how. 
For more information on Quantum touch please read, Quantum-Touch, the power to heal, or The new human, both by Richard Gordon.
Karina in a quantum touch Practioner and trainer, to find out more about what she does: https://www.karinagrant.co.uk/