EMOTIONS AND THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM

Emotions are reactions of the body, physical and mental, to stimuli coming from the external environment that disturb their balance, being able to be pleasant or unpleasant. Without exception, when they manifest, they affect all parts of the being, to a greater or lesser extent; but something very significant (important) of them is that they can become the cause of various diseases.

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Emotions are generated by a flow of force of the nervous type, outside the normal. The soul’s stability of being is exceeded by that overflowed flow.

Both the physical and mental parts of the organism are disturbed (altered) and he begins to try to restore his lost nervous balance. So far, the aforementioned applies to emotions in general, to those of any kind; but, as we said before, emotions can be pleasant, with the qualification of positive, and unpleasant or negative.

In general terms, pleasant or positive emotions are: love, joy, happiness, euphoria, ecstasy, optimism, hope, joy, exaltation, satisfaction, enthusiasm, etc. and some of them can be activated through the activities carried out with the WALK-RWD system (See Post READING-WRITING-DRAWING: VIRTUOUS CIRCLE) and contact with nature, when there is the possibility of going for a walk to the countryside or to similar places. On the other hand, unpleasant or negative emotions (VICIOUS CIRCLE) are: sadness, boredom, pessimism, nostalgia, jealousy, hatred, anger, fear, terror, guilt, boredom, disappointment, despair, disappointment, despair, melancholy grief, grief, depression, discouragement, discouragement, apathy, longing, loneliness, annoyance, disgust, anger, tedium, irritation, disgust, aversion, disgust, disgust, disinterest, indifference, indolence, abhorrence, harassment, anger, anger, anger , impatience, exasperation, indignation, discomfort, offense, displeasure, frustration, anguish, etc. Not all people agree with these two classifications, however, they are all real manifestations of the human being, without being forced to be included in categories.

I must be very emphatic in the following: The practice of walking and the WALK-RWD system allows us to recover the feeling of certain pleasant emotions that for various reasons we have stopped feeling; that is, we will rediscover some of them as if it were the first time. Keep this in mind, because it is an incontrovertible truth.

Now, when can emotions generate diseases? Or also: How can we avoid the diseases generated by uncontrolled emotions?

The good functioning of the brain allows a better control and regulation of emotions, provides a better obstruction to bad, disturbing and destructive.

An individual who maintains a healthy sympathetic system, which is the core of the neurovegetative, will have fewer emotions that will disturb him; In the same way, you will be able to deal more effectively with negative emotions (VICIOUS CIRCLE), since you will be able to regulate them better and keep them under control, and therefore you will be able to avoid diseases, because your controlled emotions will no longer be able to generate them.

In other words, people who do not have a healthy sympathetic system or a healthy brain, fatigued by stress, increases their predisposition to suffer strong emotions of anger, frustration, jealousy, hatred, or any other disturbing, for a slight irritation or because of a slight stimulus of external discomfort.

I would like to comment on stress, to continue explaining about the maintenance of a healthy state.

Stress is a response of the organism to an emotional situation; but not any emotional response can cause stress. It is a mechanism of defense of the body (physical-mental) to an external stimulus, which impels the body to generate hormones that in turn causes a variety of symptoms, depending on the level of stress, such as moodiness, anxiety, depressions, irritability, impulsive reactions, discouragement, fatigue, impotence, fainting, weakness, poor concentration, self-criticism, loss of memory and forgetfulness, increased consumption of coffee, tobacco and alcohol, digestive problems, decreased or increased appetite, discouragement, sweaty or cold hands, dizziness, nausea, sadness, discomfort in various parts of the body, especially in the back and neck, insomnia, headaches, pessimism, fatigue, etc. Each one of these symptoms is the type of psychic, nervous-physiognomic and cognitive interpretation of our organism (physical and mental) to the stimuli of the natural and social environment that affect our emotional balance.

We know that a healthy state of the brain, freed from exhaustion, allows, even in very unpleasant situations of emotional imbalance, that the person can recover quickly, because he can self-control better and restore his balance immediately. Your nervous system will work better, giving you total control over your disturbing emotions.

Now, keep in mind that the human body works as a functional unit. All the harmful effects of negative emotions are generated within a functional imbalance of the brain, and its greater or lesser degree of manifestation is directly related to disability or brain fatigue.

Brain weakness or fatigue may be generated by the same brain failure (tiredness) or by a physiological problem (VICIOUS CIRCLE) .

For any of these two causes, the affected sympathetic system can not respond adequately and optimally, through its natural generation of discharges, to defend against destructive emotions and it is very difficult to regulate them to reach emotional balance again.

Many of the physiological problems that we suffer and that we have mentioned in previous posts, related to the fundamental systems, such as the digestive, cardiovascular or circulatory, the respiratory, the osseous (the bone system) and neuro-vegetative, can be prevented and corrected with the walk and the execution of the WALK-RWD system; in the same way, the functions and tasks of the neuro-cerebral system are kept healthy, as we have already mentioned, the WALK-RWD increases the blood supply and the oxygenation of the brain, which causes a better work and healthier functioning, freeing it from fatigue and weakening, giving it strength to face (generation of discharges) better destructive emotions.

We said that both the physical and the mental part of the human body, work in a unitary way, that is, that both parties have a biunivocal relationship, so that the strengthening -as well as its deterioration- is transmitted from one to the other and vice versa.

Walking in particular and the WALK-RWD system in general, increases our state of physical and mental health, and also prevents us against numerous diseases and ailments (VIRTUOUS CIRCLE, See Post: READING-WRITING-DRAWING: VIRTUOUS CIRCLE) .

The implementation of the WALK-RWD system allows the organs to be strengthened and helps them to defend themselves, and in the same way it happens with the brain.

Each system and physical organ of the body is strengthened and become more resistant, and its optimal operations generate, in turn, positive effects on other organs, including the brain, which makes them more resistant to diseases and can combat them with greater efficiency. Also the immune system of each person who practices the walk will be favored, because it increases the generation of substances that favor this defense system, improving its capacity of reaction and tending to protect us towards certain infections and make us immune to some diseases.

This unitary functional relationship between the physical and the mental, besides strengthening biunivocally, brings with it a mechanism of emotional psychological effect, which combines several emotions: first, love, joy and happiness; and secondly, enthusiasm , hope and satisfaction, which in most cases will reach euphoria. This last level is recognized because of the awareness that starts from the second emotional level towards the first, it reaches the direct (expressive) transmission released to the individual unconscious as a lively and imperturbable expressive desire or impulse, that in a certain way has been kept hampered and inactive, and from all this emanates its importance and its level of effectiveness in our mental and physical health, because it is directed exclusively towards ourselves. Awareness is achieved as we move through the emotions evidenced by their positive effects on the state of mind when we execute the WALK-RWD system and that we walk through that mood-emotional state directly towards the individual unconscious. The challenge is to achieve that feeling, that “help”, that love and care for ourselves, but if we succeed, we can face any disturbing emotion.

Let’s get ready to walk, attract the pleasant emotions and end the negative ones.

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WHY READ AND WHAT FOR?

I have already indicated the reading parameters while walking in “THE RECOMMENDED DISTANCES” and “READING INDICATORS WHILE WALKING“; now I would like to endorse the benefits that are achieved through this activity. The three activities that give structure to the system: reading, writing and drawing, generate benefits that are common to them, but also accentuates them in different degrees and also generate other additional advantages.

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Regarding Why read and what for?, while walking, the benefits we obtain are diverse, including:

1.-The thinking of other individuals is known, whether from past times, very remote or contemporary to the reader.

2.-There are known patterns of circumstantial events different from those experienced by the reader himself, which allows him to live different lives from his own.

3.-Various parts of the brain are stimulated, which have been slow or diminished by not using them.

4.-Facilitate and increase the logical, psychological and imaginative constructions.

5.-Reflection and understanding are increased.

6.-We know the evolution that an idea or concept has had over time.

7.-Increase all mental abilities, such as creativity, meditation, imagination, intelligence, inventiveness, memory, conceptual thinking, intuition.

8.-It allows us to move to distant places visited and described by the author of the book.

9.-Renew by reviving the conscience and invigorates the unconscious.

10.-In relation to the imagination, develops the ability to relive mental images and increases the possibilities of combination of images. It impels fantasy imagination and constructive imagination.

11.-Increases psychomotor attention.

12.-Increased mental concentration and meditation.

And dozens of satisfactions more.

Let’s boost all these benefits. Let’s walk reading.

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WHAT WOULD THE GREAT THINKERS RESPOND ABOUT WALKING?

I only know that I know how to walk (To paraphrase Socrates).

It would be very interesting to know what great thinkers and other creators have said about walking. From a few we have been able, in the course of time, to scrutinize in their works some references that have had about it, but it is too complicated and time consuming to carry out an investigation about it, for that reason I have decided better to leave it posed what I would ask them -according to what I have understood of each one in his specialties and in his inclinations- in 2 or 3 key words, on his onceptualization in relation to walking. I have chosen some authors that I once related to them in a poem, and now I direct them the question in concomitance with walking.

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I would like to comment, for those who are very strict in the structural conformation of thought, that the configuration of the questions do not have a rigid or consistent form, so that some are affirming the thinking, ideas or ideology of the person to whom they direct, others in clear contradiction, others contrary to their feelings, others are ironic, but all of them pursue a single objective: WALKING.

Aristotle, Can we reduce rationalism by walking? What is walking in rationalism?

Baudelaire, When to walk to have the acceptance and my commitment?

Beckett, Is walking a renewed need?

Benedetti, How can I avoid despair, by not deciding to walk?

Bergson, How to solve my truths when walking?

Beethoven, Is it true that your hearing improved walking?

Borges, Walking can I clarify my mental labyrinths and their multiple mirrors? Is it comforting to walk in a labyrinth?

Braque, Tell me how you walk in an expressionist way?

Brecht, Walking with the 5 senses, will I contact reality?

Breton, Is it better to walk in irrationality? Can you tell me how to walk surrealistically?

Cassirer, Is walking a symbolic form?

Cervantes, Is it better to know where you are walking? Is walking an adventure?

Chesterton, Will my passion discover it with walking? Will I meet diversity with my walk?

Cicero, Should I thank my pet for allowing me to walk with her? Can I ask my pet to accompany me to walk? Can I walk with my pet to consider myself a human being?

Dante, Where do you walk better, in hell, in purgatory or in heaven?

De la Cruz, Are dark nights also conducive to walking?

Descartes, Is it better to walk than doubt and exist?

Dostoievaski, How do I get rid of my existential disturbances when walking?

Durkheim, Can I exchange my social anxieties for my walks?

Eliade, Could it be that walking prevents me from the eternal return? Could it be that the walk will assure me the eternal return?

Epictetus, Will walking lead me to participate in the Government?

Aesop, Will a fantastic reality ensure me to walk?

Aeschylus, Can Prometheus accompany me on my next walk?

Exupery, Will I be able to walk when I am an adult?

Fichte, Can I walk alone or accompanied? Is it a lie, an appearance, a phenomenon or a simulation to walk?

Frankl, Can the meaning of life simply be walking?

Freud, Will walking help me (encourage) my sexuality? Could the unconscious go for a walk, after sitting on the couch?

Fromm, Will I be able to free myself from my socio-psychoanalytic anxieties?

Heraclitus, Will walking lead me to the past? Is walking a constant becoming?

Hippocrates, If I walk, will I always be healthy?

Huarte, Can I increase my ingenuity, by walking daily?

Illich, Should I attend a course to walk, or enroll in a school?

Jesus, Can walking help us to love our neighbor more? Can you accompany us to walk through the desert, in case the devil comes out? Will I be able to accompany you to walk in the desert?

Joyce, When I walk, can I better understand what you write?

Jung, Could walking be considered as an archetype?

Kafka, Could it be that walking is also absurd?

Kant, Is it anguishing to philosophize while we walk? Can we make a philosophical critique of practical walking and pure walking?

Kelly, Is it true that when you danced, the previous warm-up you did walking a few minutes earlier?

Keynes, Will I have to walk by my private economic thresholds?

Lenon, Can we also sing while we walk? Should I sing while I walk?

Lessing, What is more important, painting, poetry or walking?

Lincoln, Walking, will I stop lying to everyone, all the time?

Machado, In addition to the road, what else can you do when walking?

Machiavelli, And then why my distrust when I walk?

Maritain, Should I accompany my sensibilities when I walk?

Marx, Could walking be focused as a struggle with myself and not as a class?

Montesquieu, Can I still walk accompanied by my nonsense?

Mozart, Did you conceive or write any melody, walking?

Nietzsche, Walking, is Apollonian or Dionysian?

Ortega y Gasset, Am I just myself and my circumstantial walk?

Paz, Should I let my ambition rest when I walk or wait for pears from the elm tree?

Plato, Can a walker be an idealist?

Popper, Are freedoms good companions when walking? Should I walk in open or closed spaces?

Proust, Is time an inseparable companion of walking?

Reyes, Should the conscience of the word be abandoned when walking, or should it continue with us?

Rousseau, When we walk, should we be oriented towards equality?

Russell, Are the concerns a placebo during the walk?

Santa Teresa, To what Dwelling will the walk lead us?

Sartre, Is walking an existentialism?

Schiller, What should I do with my authoritarian insensitivity when I walk?

Schopenhauer, Should I give up the pessimistic reaction, when I walk?

Seneca, The power to walk is a great fortune can not be transformed into a great slavery? Could we resemble walking to the practice of good and to the passion for virtues?

Shakespeare, Walking or not walking, what is the matter?

Siddharta, To meditate, is it good to walk?

Socrates, Can I come to know and eliminate my ignorance, walking? Can you walk without knowing anything?

Sor Juana, How can I break my in-serenity when I walk?

Spengler, Can walking attenuate the unavoidable decadence?

Tolstoy, When I walk I must read and write or only contemplate nature?

Unamuno, Will the walking liberate me from the tragic feeling of life?

Upanishads, Is it normal for me to feel an absolute emptiness when I walk?

Vargas Llosa, Is it possible for me to abstract from politics when I walk?

Vico, How can I free myself from this social incomprehension, if all I want is to walk?

Voltaire, Can walking walk away from this subjection and make me rebellious?

Anonymous, Can I be free when I walk?

There were too many questions, and many of them, of the philosophical type -if you can say that-; however, in a subsequent post, which have passed a couple of months to give me the opportunity to investigate, I will be able to present quotes from some of these thinkers and creators about walking, that they have done in their time.

Could you reflect or speculate what answer these people would have regarding the previous questions? We await your comments.

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ALTERNATE VARIETIES IN THE TYPES OF WALK

Walking could be said to be the only way to carry it on foot. However, there are modalities in walking through some characteristics that have been added, so that their designations are several; those characteristics are due to the form, the place, the team, and other additions in their development. Thus, at present, walking is publicly practiced in several ways, such as those mentioned below, but not all of them can be developed within the WALK-RWD system.

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We said that not all of these varieties of walking can be developed with the integral system of reading, writing and drawing. The reasons are obvious, some need to rely on equipment that prevents doing so, others the physical environment where it is practiced also makes it difficult, however, it is convenient to know all these varieties so that at a given moment they can be done independently, which will allow the individual continue with the exercise (practice) of walking and can return to the activities inherent to it, reading, writing and drawing, to fully develop the system.

On the contrary, some forms and types that are mentioned in the following list, are inherent in the system of walking: reading, writing and drawing; in fact, we have already indicated, commented and described in previous posts; and we have repeated them within this list to have a complete indication, concrete case is Indoor Walking. Finally, I would like to point out that for some individuals, certain variants of the walk that are indicated, could be used to read or write or draw, but this only corresponds to each person to find out with personal practice.

  1. Body Walking
  2. Climb Walking
  3. Dance Walking
  4. Hiking
  5. Hill Walking
  6. Indoor Walking
  7. Jogging
  8. Mountaineering
  9. Nordic Walking
  10. Olympic March
  11. Pace Walking
  12. Power Walking
  13. Roaming
  14. Sprint Walking
  15. Strolling
  16. Trekking
  17. Walking on Water
  18. Walk-Talk
  19. Wandern
  20. Weight Walking
  21. Long Distance Walking
  22. Treadmill Walking

Maybe there are doubts in some of them, for that reason I briefly define them:

HIKING: Hiking, walking to programmed places. STROLLING: Wandering around. JOGGING: Walking and Trotting. HILL WALKING: Walk up and down light slopes. WANDERN: Hiking on foot, to learn the history and culture of the places you visit. TREKKING: Hiking, long walks. SPRINT WALKING: Walk exchanging long steps and short steps, and with speed changes. OLYMPIC MARCH: Walk without your feet ever losing contact with the floor. PACE WALKING: Walk slowly doing exercises with other limbs and body parts. ROAMING: To wander, without fixed course, average distances. POWER WALKING: Walk at higher speeds. CLIMB WALKING: walking climbing. DANCE WALKING: walk doing some dance steps. NORDIC WALKING: walk outdoors with equipment. BODY WALKING: Walking observing body messages. WALKING ON WATER: Walk inside low water braces. WALK-TALK: Walk talking. WEIGHT WALKING: Walking to lose weight. INDOOR WALKING: Walk inside enclosed spaces, such as houses, shopping centers, shopping malls, etc.

All of them allow us to develop a favorable exercise for our health, of the aerobic type. That is to say, when performing and applying aerobic dynamism we generate the oxygenation of the whole body, including the brain, we improve blood circulation and collateral circulation, as well as the function of memory and decisively benefiting cardiac activity. The important thing is to walk, always walk, and perform some of the activities inherent to the WALK-RWD system, be it reading, writing or drawing.

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WALKING AND FREEDOM

I think that talking about the concept of freedom is very complex. I once said: Freedom: Existential longing, mental mirage or metaphysical reality? However, here I do not intend to define what it consists of, I only try to make it feel in some of its most elementary forms, by just walking.

Freedom gains strength in terms of its absence; the more we feel that we do not have it, the more we long for it.

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Walking makes us feel and live sensorially that full strength of our interiority, regardless of what are the types of our emotional chains. It allows us to get away from that massive fervor of purchases, that envelope of mass advertising, because they constantly tell us that freedom is “a plus” that is obtained by acquiring things. When we walk along a path in the countryside, we say: We breathe pure air; and that is nothing more than a metaphor of feeling free, free of the things that imprison us, our commitments, obligations, physical things; we feel tied to all of this.

Just to get a little closer to its definition, we can mention a classification of this concept in 2 aspects, which are not the only ones: psychological, spiritual, mental and metaphysical freedom; and external freedom: physical, civil, political, economic, with all its rights, of worship, association, expression and others.

Now, the system of reading, writing and drawing, while we walk, is a possibility that we have at hand to get away from those chains a little. Those 3 fundamental activities that make up the system are linked to freedom, while we walk, it is a way of feeling free from our bonds.

In my book Evanescent stories (*) I present a dialogue between the conscience and the unconscious entitled “THE TREE OF EXISTENCE; AND FREEDOM?”. (All the stories consist of that dialogue between these two mental entities), which describes the struggle we engage with ourselves for not understanding what happens to us and for not being able to feel free. I quote textually:

“Freedom is random space where none of the mental functions find accommodation. Disharmonies that must turn back, seeking the intuition of that reasoned instant that imprisoned generates our own reaction to exist.

Paradoxical is blaming each other. Healing is the very longing for freedom, that self-presence in the balance of the source of feeling and reason, of suffocation and subjection; with the sole purpose of knowing and feeling that we are alone; condemned to hide in the memory of our own being, consuming that strangulation of deep loneliness, product of despair, of being authentically us, and only us. That is not being. The vital horizon is observed when freedom is oneself. And what comes next? My unconscious conditions are confused. The nothing. Absolutely nothing. Only hell. Blood flows at 103 degrees when freedom is taken away. Let’s not resist all movement is creator of itself; even if we are in those limits, we should not aspire to recreate only if the other dies”.

So far that section of the dialogue between those two entities seeking harmony. The title of this series of dialogues between the conscience and the unconscious summarizes our perennial struggle to be free: FREEDOM 103 (The result was the book: Freedom 103 **). When our being is cut off in its possibilities of acting freely or is observed blocked, in that point of intransigence and despair, our blood begins to overheat and comes to a boil if we can not emancipate ourselves from our chains, whatever they may be, personal or external.

 356 “Lady Liberty”

The walk is not the total solution to eliminate those chains, but it does help us to mitigate those emotional ailments. Let’s do it by choosing a place outside of urban areas and accompanying ourselves with a book and a notebook. Let’s read that book that transmits liberation and we rescue that suffering part of our being. Let’s observe the open space and vent our hardships by writing them so that they also fly with freedom outside of our being.

Grant us the permission to walk and make it a privilege that has no economic cost. Let’s perform these activities as a fundamental act of freedom.

The painting “Lady Liberty” is inspired by the poem “Liberéstula”, which I present below.

Poem “Liberéstula”

  • They broke the silence
  • lined up as they were
  • seemed to nestle
  • the semblance of a walk.
  • &
  • Defeated by time
  • emancipated by pain itself
  • accompanied by the shaft,
  • you are the objectified expression
  • with narrowed eyes
  • -looking without seeing-
  • &
  • Nymph in elevation
  • you are the Greek ode
  • the smiling proclamation
  • you inebriate in solitude;
  • the architrave gives you continuity
  • epistile of sustenance that draws
  • those versifications of the sunset,
  • even with your diluted silhouette
  • there is no confusion in you.
  • &
  • The spirit of the plinth
  • where you rest in an irony
  • occupying the backwater
  • you unsettle the pedestal,
  • and the effort transmitted
  • with similar somber anguish
  • looking ever skyward.
  • &
  • Stulos,
  • of inert stone
  • with archetypal mask
  • you ignite all my words
  • that do not reach you
  • &
  • Movement in the static
  • refulgence you express in your crown
  • the living torrent of your command
  • the contact
  • reinforced
  • you are chained
  • the Roman enlarges your landscape
  • the tonal
  • your stylized silhouette
  • you carry with you the whole work
  • you are the praise of the heights.
  • &
  • Substantial of the figurative
  • in the modification you are anchored
  • you survive in death
  • and faint in experience
  • ex – expertise centered on the ledge
  • the environment suffocates you,
  • you still want to grow
  • and you resurge in the future work.
  • &
  • Upright
  • there, on the base,
  • thrown in the path of incomprehension
  • always illuminated
  • are you definitive?
  • transcendence in your being
  • you make an appointment with the empyrean.
  • &
  • In darkness you shine
  • you initiate in the ortho of life
  • you are the refulgent expression
  • and you nestle
  • in revived history
  • everything is afterlife
  • you always reach the divine
  • and only you
  • because your opposite, the rest, is slavery.
  • &
  • You probe the floor with pleasure
  • are your footprints
  • there the boarding
  • serious character
  • that flashes your silhouette
  • penumbras there is not in you
  • transient exaltation
  • always overcoming your own height.
  • &
  • The shadows lengthen
  • you spread
  • the impartial frieze
  • transmission of your emptiness
  • always hoisting your lineage
  • in the veins transmitting your efforts
  • wandering through the desert anguish
  • your reign is an example
  • the mystery of impartiality.
  • &
  • You exacerbate the cravings of hell
  • series that ignites and raises the spire
  • you are spirit in search
  • unloaded and sad
  • as a delicate figure
  • surrendered in obeisance
  • before the infinity
  • &
  • Eternal truth is simplicity?
  • will not change your temperament
  • tormented fruit in chained death
  • you are the envy of others;
  • the kingdom is yours, but not the peace
  • life-long of the cares
  • the environment now caresses you,
  • you move without walking.
  • &
  • Complexity of the ardent look
  • chimera of intellectuality
  • you dream to see yourself exalted
  • you emerge permanent in the deforming altar
  • you are mutism sunk in your elevation
  • and you smile together with firmness
  • enveloping the glances
  • deeply
  • without existing in a single face
  • inaccessible to visual withdrawal
  • you conform fatally and inexorably
  • without undermining your essentiality.
  • &
  • Decadence tries not to flatter
  • the precedence that dwelt
  • you are the edification of the symbol
  • you are the faithful deviation the ideal unreality.
(*) Loya Lopategui, Carlos & Pinera, Edel C. , Evanescent Stories, EMULISA, Mexico, 2021. Distributed by Amazon, available in Kindle Edition: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B86GMS8W.

(**) Loya Lopategui, Carlos, Freedom 103, EMULISA, México, 2009.

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