At Gregg Braden's website (http://www.greggbraden.net), he illustrates two contrasting methods of prayer, using the example of praying for peace. Here, with Gregg's permission, we have adapted this comparison to praying for the restoration of Mother Earth to a state of balance and purity.

1. We focus upon present conditions on Mother Earth where we believe that problems exist.
2. We may feel helpless, powerless or angry at these events and conditions.
3. We employ our prayer by inviting divine intervention from a higher power to bring healing to bear upon situations where the pollution, imbalance, or other problems exist.
4. Through our asking, we may unknowingly affirm the very conditions that we least desire. When we say "Please let there be balance," for example, we are declaring that a particular situation is out of balance. In doing so, we may actually fuel the condition that we have chosen to change.
5. We continue to ask for intervention until we see the change actually come to pass in our world.

1. We witness all events, those of environmental balance and those that we see as the absence of this balance, as possibilities -- without judgment of right, wrong, bad, or good.
2. We release our judgment of the situation by Blessing those conditions that have caused us pain. The Blessing does not condone or consent to the event or condition. Rather, it acknowledges that the event is part of the single source of all that is. (Please see the book Walking Between the Worlds: The Science of Compassion, for details.)
3. Now, we feel the feelings of our prayer already answered. In doing this we invoke the ancient quantum principle stating that conditions within our bodies are mirrored in the world beyond.
4. We acknowledge the power of our prayer and know (feel) that the focus of our prayer has already come to pass.
5. Our prayer now consists of acknowledging that balance already is present in our world, living from the knowledge that this balance exists, and empowering our prayer by giving thanks for this opportunity to choose.