# @cintiamars on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DbBlkirtZX5
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- **Posted:** 2026-07-20T18:37:04.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Cintia Mars (@cintiamars) — https://gondola.cc/cintiamars

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Today, I was watching a reel of a “yoga influencer” in Swedish about relaxing the nervous system. However, her voice carried an underlying, rushed anxiety, and her hands were constantly fidgeting. This isn’t a critique of her, anxiety is a shared reality for almost everyone these days. But it made me reflect on something vital: I completely lost focus on her message because my brain was too busy processing the stress her body and tone were transmitting.

We live in an era of “gurus” and good intentions, but bodily and vocal awareness cannot be faked. Sound is one of the very first elements our brain perceives.

This took me back to my own mirror. Years ago, working as a Product Manager in tech, I took on a brutal cognitive load. I had to multiply my personality to cover the jobs of multiple roles. My survival strategy? Talking like a machine gun. I spoke so fast and intensely that when I first tried using early conversational AI tools for dictation, the system crashed. My speed and accent confused the AI, forcing me to repeat myself constantly. That frustration with technology was my first wake-up call, but the real turning point was realizing the immense cognitive load my overwhelming pace was placing on the people around me.

That was when I decided to pause, dive deeper into Tibetan Buddhism, and later complete my meditation teacher training with the Buddhist Studies Institute. There, I rediscovered the concept of emptiness: space.

That sacred pause between inhalation and exhalation. The necessary space things need to exist between a stimulus and our reaction. When we train the mind in mental calmness, we create space for emotions and sensations to surface without the immediate need to react to them. We give ourselves permission to act in alignment with our values and moral choices, rather than being ruled by impulse or anxiety.

We live in a predatory society that monetizes our lack of mental control, shrinking the microsecond between what we feel and how we react to a minimum. That is why guarding our cadence, our tone, and our silence is not just a gift to our own minds; it is an act of respect and generosity toward others.

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