Healing - Beyond Pills & Potions

Core Principles for Helpers & Healers

By: Steve Bierman M.D.

Narrated by: Dr. Steve Bierman

In Healing: Beyond Pills & Potions, Dr. Steve Bierman draws on 40 years of clinical experience to restore Mind to medicine and Humanism to healing. Citing case histories from his own remarkable emergency medicine and medical hypnosis practices, Dr. Bierman compels us to acknowledge what material science refuses to see - namely, that Mind Matters. Then, in easy digestible steps, he teaches us how simple refinements of everyday communication (speech and gestures) can enable us to achieve stunningly positive outcomes and lasting cures.

Working as an emergency physician, Dr. Bierman became renowned for performing painless procedures - from simple injections and laceration repairs to childbirth to electrical cardioversion. But his other less-celebrated outcomes were equally astonishing: perilous heart rhythms converted to normal with a few well-chosen words, hemorrhages arrested, airways opened, bad habits (smoking) broken - all with a few choice phrases and easy delivery techniques.

In his private practice, Dr. Bierman used the same skills to forestall auto-immune diseases, shrink deadly tumors, relieve depression, ameliorate cardiac disease and ensure bloodless, painless surgeries - in essence, to help patients recover their desired wellness. Many of his cures seem like miracles. But, as Dr. Bierman explains, they are the inevitable consequence of an expanded understanding of disease causality and the focused power of ideas.

Healing: Beyond Pills & Potions unravels the mysteries of ritual, hypnosis and Placebo, and places the curative power of those phenomena in the hands of patients and caregivers. Here, health is redefined, and the true nature of symptom formation is explored and clarified. With these new conceptual tools, Dr. Bierman teaches both patients and caregivers how to avoid inadvertent “curses,” while instead promoting healing and restoring health.

Artful caregivers, as Dr. Bierman calls them, will learn from Healing what their professional education failed to teach them - namely, how to deliver information correctly, by avoiding harm while promoting health. They will also learn how to achieve “deep cures,” by uprooting the persisting causes of illness. As a consequence, clinicians will experience a deeper sense of fulfillment and gratification than ever before, as they open themselves to the wonders of painless procedures, bloodless surgeries, unexpectedly positive outcomes and enduring cures.

Patients who listen to Healing will learn two lessons. First, that if ideas can harm, then other ideas can help. Through this knowledge, patients will learn to gain agency over their own health and healing in a way conventional medicine routinely ignores. Second, patients will learn what they can and should expect of their caregivers, and how to assist those caregivers who have not yet learned the exquisite art of caregiving.

This is the book every patient should read at least once, and every caregiver should read at least once a year. A book about mastery of the healing arts, written by a master clinician. As one noted academic has written: Healing: Beyond Pills & Potions is one of the most significant works on health and healing in modern times. It will survive the ages.

©2019 Steven Fox Bierman M.D. (P)2020 Steven Fox Bierman

The BEST book I’ve ever read on Hypnosis!!!

I’ve been studying , integrating and applying Hypnosis in my chiropractic practice for over 35 years and this book has given me more useful tools to use with patients that produce results!
A must read for any caregiver! Especially the Audible version because Dr Bierman demonstrates many of the subtle nuances of the Hypnotic method that you’ll miss simply reading the words.
- Dr. Patrick Dorman

Powerful and Life Changing

This book, and Dr Bierman’s work, is extraordinary. As someone who has studied patient doctor communication and has been a patient myself, I wish that all practitioners would read this book (and that it was required reading in medical school). I found it so helpful and hopeful I’ve listened to it twice :) Highly recommended!

A Quality of Life Experience!

Listening to Dr. Bierman narrate this book has significantly improved my quality of life. The stories and guidance received from this experience has directly helped me quicken healing. I learned to engage access within to create an innate alliance to embrace healthy living. I highly recommend adding this resource to your life.

An Extaordinary Story of careful exploration and explanation of the exquisite art of caregiving

Mind Matters:
Noetic medicine informs skills and techniques that can transform the experience of caring for patients and practitioners alike.

I found validation and next steps...

I’m a practicing hypnotherapist who once faced a 100% death diagnosis with 12-14 months to live, and no hope for treatments at that point.

19 years later, I’m working with others, and I enjoy the hopeless cases, because I believe in fantastic turnarounds for those who continue to seek relief and re-constitution.

I’ve had 3 clients with massive physical symptoms have spontaneous remission of there symptoms but I had no training for this, nor sought it.

I simply helped them in their seeking and with zero promises. 2 had acute symptoms.

This book helped me to see why I got results with these clients I had, one of which had a spine pop back into place within the next breath after letting go of all resentment, bias, injustice, victimization ect...

I urged them back to their doctors both medical and Chiropractic to get re-diagnosed, which they loathed to do as all pain left and good spinal movement returned.

One called me and asked what I did... how I touched them... ect... it was certified / documented, and now no need for surgery, rods, fusing and life long debility.

I did nothing but help them feel good about letting go of pain. And so they did let go, and the breath then nudged the skewed vertebrae back into its original place.

I was led by a inner vision, but you likely won’t need that, as this long and effective book will support you in know about these profound possibilities.

Such a remarkable author and lover of life, fore who cannot love life when one has done such good things as this wise doctor and compassionate professional?

Wow! Super rad ;-) haha

Must-read for healers and clinicians

I read many books, and it is not often that I read a book that gives me a completely new insight into my vocation

This week I listened to just such a book:

HEALING – Beyond Pills & Potions, by emergency physician and hypnotherapist Steve Bierman, offers paradigm-shifting insights into how we as clinicians and healers communicate with our patients

It is about hypnotherapy, and so much more. It is about using our words and our role as carers to best benefit those who trust in us to provide care

As a psychiatric nurse practitioner I appreciate the insights into the human mind

As an emergency nurse practitioner for many years I absolutely resonate with Dr. Bierman’s to-the-point approach to care (he is an experienced emergency physician)

Given all the books that I read, I don’t say this often: I cannot recommend this book strongly enough for any healthcare provider and anyone in healthcare period.

Check out his website, and buy this book! I purchased the Audible version, the kindle version, and the hardback.

I’ve been interested in and reading about hypnotherapy for many, many years, and this is the impetus for me to jump back into the subject.

Brilliant and Essential

As a healing arts professional with over 40 years of clinical experience, I found this book extremely enriching and informative.
I will encourage my students to learn from this book. Guaranteed to make us better and more effective practitioners.
Much gratitude to Dr. Bierman

Incredible book from an Incredible Healer

Dr. Bearman is one of a kind Physician who is now practicing Medical Hypnosis but through this book, he encourages everyone to use some simple yet extremely effective verbal tools to greatly improve patient care. This is a must-read for all medical providers and I'm already recommending it to all providers. Thank you, Dr. Bearman!