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    Already Wise: Our Inborn Ability to Make the Best Choices
    Already Wise: Our Inborn Ability to Make the Best Choices
    Already Wise: Our Inborn Ability to Make the Best Choices
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    Already Wise: Our Inborn Ability to Make the Best Choices

    By Douglas McKee

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    "Wisdom is the freedom and the ability to make the kinds of choices that move our life forward and benefit the planet." Wisdom is the antidote for the choices that keep you mired in a world of negative emotions.
    If someone could demonstrate you Already have the Ability and you Already actually have the Freedom to make wiser choices, wouldn't your life be radically better tomorrow, and even better in the future?
    Well, you Already do have the "ability." You were born wise. You were born ready to learn and ready to love. Wisdom and altruism are built into your genes.
    And, you Already have the freedom. Your successful habits such as speaking, dressing, working, and driving hold the key to that freedom. Many thousands of times a day your subconscious Already uses information in wise ways.
    Already Wise walks you through your inborn ability and freedom to make the kinds of choices that move your life toward what you once thought it could be.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDouglas McKee
    Release dateMay 29, 2011
    ISBN9780979244032
    Already Wise: Our Inborn Ability to Make the Best Choices
    Author

    Douglas McKee

    Somewhere in the publishing process is a rule saying the author has to have a biography. To tell you where I have been does not tell you who I am now. This book will tell you who I am. It is the story of my life and it is your story also. We were born wise and then educated and conditioned to be unwise. We then struggle the rest of our lives trying to regain the youthful excitement and contentment we lost along the way. Too few of us make it because we haven't been given everyday tools to make our lives better. It is my joy to be able to share with you the first explicit How-To Manual for Wisdom. The messages in it are not new. They are as old as our species. We have heard them all before and they are true. I truly believe the next step for our species will be defined, not by what we can have, but by what we can be.

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      Already Wise - Douglas McKee

      ALREADY WISE:

      OUR INBORN ABILITY TO

      MAKE THE BEST CHOICES

      by DOUGLAS McKEE

      Mystic House Publishing

      PO Box 8069

      Brownsville, TX 78526

      Publisher’s Cataloging-in-Publication

      McKee, Douglas, 1947–

      Already Wise: Our Inborn Ability to Make the Best Choices / Douglas McKee

      ISBN:

      Copyright 2011 by Douglas McKee

      Smashwords Edition License Notes

      This e-book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This e-book may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then you should return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the author's work.

      * * * * *

      This book is dedicated to

      everyone who is willing to consider the possibility

      that reason is more important than emotions,

      that solutions to problems can be found,

      that values really are important,

      and that making better choices

      will make our lives better.

      * * * * *

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      _______________________

      Without Jack Barnard, coach, mentor, and virtual brother, and my wife Gloria, Sophia and soul mate, this book would simply never have happened. They kept me focused on two things. Jack on What is the essence of your message, and can your audience hear your message in what you are saying? He understood my message long before I could give it the voice it now has. And Gloria, the ultimately patient person in my life, was always willing to listen to what I thought was my message and in being the person she is, daily demonstrate that Love in Action IS Wisdom.

      CONTENTS

      _______________________

      PREFACE

      INTRODUCTION: HOW I GOT HERE

      AUTHOR’S NOTE

      CHAPTER ONE: WHAT IS WISDOM?

      CHAPTER TWO: WHY WISDOM?

      CHAPTER THREE: S.W.S.W.S.W.N!

      CHAPTER FOUR: THE THINKER IS NOT THE THOUGHT

      CHAPTER FIVE: YOUR HABIT-FORMING BRAIN

      CHAPTER SIX: EMOTIONS

      CHAPTER SEVEN: VALUES

      CHAPTER EIGHT: DECONSTRUCTION

      CHAPTER NINE: WISDOM IS THE NEXT STEP IN HUMAN EVOLUTION

      CHAPTER TEN: CONCLUSION

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      PREFACE

      _______________________

      When I was a young man, I was not a happy one. My personal world was filled with unresolved issues. That’s a nice way to say I was a frustrated, maybe even angry, young man. I was married with two darling daughters, had a great profession as a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA), and a nice home in the mountains of Colorado. All those things should have brought me much joy, and to the rest of the world it appeared to, but my interior world was one of frustration and discontent.

      One Friday evening I drove my daughter to her best friend’s house to stay the night. Her friend’s father was a psychologist. Driving there I wondered if he might be able to help me, so after depositing my daughter, I said to him, Louie, I think I may need to see you professionally. He, of course, asked why I thought so. I proceeded to tell him about my inner world of frustration and angst. He calmly listened and then directed me to the back porch. He disappeared into the kitchen, only to arrive shortly on the back porch with a couple of cold beers.

      We sat in silence watching the sun go down, just enjoying the moment. Louie broke the silence: Doug, you don’t need therapy. You need to learn to relax. You need to learn to meditate. Human beings are built to take a huge amount of stress for short periods of time, but your high stress level can’t be maintained. It has to be broken, or bad things can happen.

      So I took his advice and taught myself to meditate. Within a few weeks I could drop into a profound meditative state and remain there as long as I wanted.

      Meditation taught me that Peace and Infinity exist and that, in a wonderful way, we are all connected within that Infinity.

      BUT, when I walked out of the bedroom where I meditated, the same old world was right there waiting for me: the same people, the same problems, and the same emotions. Meditation was wonderful, but not what I felt I needed. Also, my being able to meditate for an hour a day did not appear to be a great benefit to those around me, either. I was unable to bring the benefits of meditation into the non-meditative part of my life.

      After about a year, I had an epiphany. During meditation, while I was NOT thinking, Peace and Contentment were my reality. But when I started thinking again, uncertainty and emotionality reigned. I concluded there must be something wrong with my thinking.

      So I decided to give up meditation as a daily practice. I had learned beyond a shadow of a doubt that true Peace and Harmony do exist. But meditation, I concluded, was not a practical solution for myself or for the rest of us in the real world who have responsibilities and cannot meditate 24/7.

      My search began. The goal was to figure out how to bring the Peace and Harmony we can easily experience during meditation into our daily life. My guides would be the Masters who have walked in our

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