According to Rav Berg of the Kabbalah Center, the way to connect to God is through self-transformation. The more we do for others, help people, say something nice, improve the world around us, our own ego becomes reduced allowing a place for God to enter. At the Kabbalah Center it is taught that our actions for goodness helps us to negate our selfish aspects, which in turn connects our soul to God. In addition, prayer is the means by which we can connect to the source of the spiritual strength which gives us the ability to resist our egos, selfish desires and incorrect responses.  We are the tools through which the spiritual light enters the world to transform it and heal it, and prayer is the force which propels us to action. The Kabbalah Centre is a great place to begin this transformation of the self and ultimately the world.