ENDING Unnecessary Suffering: How Contraction Hijacks Your Nervous System and How Expansion Restores Peace - An 80 day Healing Journey-

By Michael Patrick

Ending Unnecessary Suffering:
How Contraction Hijacks Your Nervous System and How Expansion Restores Peace
- An 80 day Healing Journey-

Most suffering isn't caused by life itself.
It's caused by what happens inside your nervous system-
the way it contracts into fear, defense, and overwhelm.

But contraction is not permanent.
Expansion is always available.
And awareness is the key that restores peace.

In Ending Unnecessary Suffering, Michael Patrick offers 80 short, poetic daily guides that blend inspiration with practical nervous system tools.

Each day includes:
- A simple teaching about contraction and expansion
- A nervous-system practice to restore calm
- A Calming phrase to carry with you throughout the day

Open to any page whenever you feel stressed, anxious, or overwhelmed.
This book is both a calming companion and a practical guide-
a way to end unnecessary suffering, one breath at a time.

Awareness is already here.
Your nervous system can remember Peace.

About the Author

Michael Patrick is the author of many books blending Awareness, Creativity, and Nervous System understanding.
Through poetic daily guides and practical practices, his work helps readers soften contraction,
restore peace, and live from expanded Awareness.

He writes and creates art in Las Vegas under the imprint Michael Patrick Studio.

Michael is also a highly sensitive person (HSP), a trait shared by about 20% of the population-including animals-who are born with a highly attuned nervous system. This sensitivity has shaped his perception of the world and deepened his capacity to create art and writings that touch the subtle layers of human experience.

For over forty years, he lived in a contracted state of fear that gave rise to intense anxiety, depression, and bipolar symptoms. This book emerges from his own healing journey and from years of personal study in the world's wisdom traditions-a desperate yet devoted effort to transform his own suffering into calm, compassion, and inner peace.

Disclaimer: This book is not a substitute for professional therapy or medical treatment. It reflects the author's lived experience and daily practices, offered as gentle support for those who may wish to deepen their healing alongside professional care.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FP33K9H7
• ISBN13: 9798900304854
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Michael Patrick Studio
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"