Long wrote, “In Hawaii when the missionaries arrived, the kahunas marveled that they made their prayers with no careful preparation ahead of this, and especially, without the slow and deeper breathing to accumulate mana (or vital force) to send with the prayer when it was put into words. They shook their heads and said, ‘These people are without breath, and their prayers are without mana (or vital force).’ Thereafter the white people became known as “the breathless ones,” or ha-ole, which means ‘without breathing.'” What is Creator’s perspective?

This question and description allows us to better interpret the meaning of "mana" as used by the kahunas. Using the breath to animate a prayer, charge it with energy, is literally an enhancement that adds a greater intention to that creation of consciousness that constitutes the prayer itself. As with all thoughts, they constitute a form of energy, and that can have lesser or greater force as well as the meaning of the thoughts themselves. A fleeting idle notion has little impact on anything. A powerful moment of awakening and clarity that becomes a turning point, as in hitting rock bottom and making a decision to change things for the better, is a life-altering example of thought in action. A prayer can be done as a dull ritual out of habit, going along with a congregation gathered at worship without the heart truly being in it, perhaps if the person is distracted by something in their life in wishing they were somewhere else, and so on. Or prayer can be fervent, heartfelt, and have extreme power of intention as when someone is praying for the life of a loved one that hangs in the balance. What the principles of Huna were teaching was that prayer can be empowered through physical maneuver that acts as a kind of energetic ramping up of the being, to focus and launch the prayer using the breath as a physical ritual. That keeps the entire being, mind included, on the matter at hand, and with that physical reinforcement the entire being is projecting a total concentration and focus on the intention of the prayer being launched without distraction, and providing a consistent high-level energetic launching compared to the vagaries of thoughts and impulses that come and go just within the mind itself, all of which are relatively subtle and present quite briefly. Taking the time to perform a ritual to launch a prayer, in combining a physical act like using the breath, for example, to further empower its launching, creates intention all along the way. So rather than a fleeting thought that lasts only as long as it takes to think the words or read the words from a prayer book, there is great feeling and a time component during which the mind is intent on launching that prayer and wanting it to have an effect. The divine pays much more attention to what the intentions of a prayer are than the words used to say them or think them. In other words, you cannot fool the divine. If you are saying a prayer by rote, with little feeling or thought in any kind of deep way about who the prayer is for and why, there is very little the divine can do to act on that prayer because there is little human intention to work with. In contrast, a fervent prayer that is heartfelt and soul-stirring, because you care deeply about what you ask for and how it is desired to change something for the better, there will be a much more powerful energy of intention attached to those words, and that intention energy will persist and is used as the fuel. So a prayer that is sincere and not just paying lip service to a routine practice will have a much greater body of fuel for the divine to put the prayer into action, unlike in a worship service where someone's mind might be wandering and, if they are tired, may be just going through the motions.