This course teaches you how to befriend your nervous system (rather than to be hijacked by it) so that you can spend most of your life in connection mode. This includes, but is not limited to:  resolving “false alarms” in real time repairing the nervous system’s prior landscape replenishing the nervous system disabling unhelpful subconscious programs (that dictate our life and keep us in protection mode)  The course also includes: integrating key, retained primitive reflexes developing the lower brain (the pons and midbrain) enhancing vestibular, proprioceptive, auditory, and visual processing

There is no limited time frame to access the materials. The only “asterisk” to that statement would be if Brain Highways was no longer operational. In such a case, the multiple servers needed to present the materials would also no longer be operational.

Ultimately, you can do however much or as little of the program as you want. But we strongly encourage you to make a daily commitment and follow the program as it is intended. For example, consistency and repetition are needed to create new, lasting neural networks.

If you become sick or there’s a family or work emergency or something else prevents you from doing the program on certain days, you can opt to pick up wherever you were left off or double up on sessions on subsequent days (to catch up quickly) once the unexpected circumstance is resolved. So, it’s not problematic to miss a few days, here and there, when “life happens.” But to yield lasting changes, there does need to be an overall seriousness about the daily commitment. As an analogy, we would likely think that someone wasn’t all that serious/committed to running a marathon if she only trained for 15 minutes a day, twice a week.

If you do the program as intended, you will begin to experience some (often many) changes even before you’ve finished your lower brain development or restored your nervous system’s flexibility.

Yes, medication makes no difference to our approach for changing the brain and nervous system.

Many past participants have shared that they were able to reduce or go completely off their medication after restoring their nervous system’s flexibility. But since Brain Highways is solely an educational program, such decisions are always made by participants and their doctor.

You need to be able to get down on the floor and lay in the prone position. The primitive reflex and pons movements require some neck and shoulder flexibility, and the midbrain movements put some pressure on the wrists and knees. So, any existing conditions with these parts of the body may be problematic or prevent you from doing the lower brain work (depending on the severity). But many participants also discover that they’re still able do the movements if, for example, they do them very slowly or wear knee pads or make some other modification to circumvent any possible pain. However, concerns on whether the lower brain movements might have an adverse effect on any physical condition should always be first discussed with your doctor.

While it is ideal to do both—develop the lower brain and restore the nervous system’s flexibility—it is possible to still experience significant changes by just doing the nervous system part of the course.  But there may also be ways to do some of the lower brain movements. For example, if it is not possible to get down on the floor, the primitive reflex movements can be done while lying on a bed.

The course’s 8-week time frame is what’s needed to teach you everything you need to know to finish your lower brain development, how to restore your nervous system’s flexibility, and how to assess your progress. The end of the course simply means that you have now acquired this important knowledge and, therefore, are empowered to continue doing what you’ve already learned—at whatever pace that you choose—until all your highways are in place.

Your lower brain development baseline at the start of the course and how much you implemented the program (as intended) during the 8 weeks are the primary variables for whether you may need to continue beyond the course.  On average, most participants finish their lower brain development by doing the lower brain movements for a total of 100-300 hours. Once the lower brain development is completed, there is no need (or benefit) to continue to do those movements.

When we are continually “idling” in protection mode (as the result of incomplete lower brain development and/or other unresolved stresses), the brain now often receives common sensory input in a distorted way, which our nervous system then interprets as danger. At one point, this ongoing, unresolved stress signals the brain to maladapt—to rewire itself in a way that now “matches” the new reality.

Our amygdala (the brain’s natural alarm system) gets bigger and more reactive. The prefrontal cortex and hippocampus also shrink in size and volume. Once that happens, we’re more likely to struggle with worry, self-criticism, depression, rumination of thoughts, and problem-solving. We also experience a decrease in our ability to encode and recall previously stored information.

Yes! This happens by doing specific movements to finish the lower brain development (if done in the order that parallels natural brain development) and by doing a myriad of actions that restore the nervous system’s flexibility. This “formula” for reversing maladaptive wiring is why Brian Highways participants experience lasting and incredible changes.

The answer is no—unless there isn’t any uncarpeted area (e.g., wood, tile) equal to at least four times your body length. (Carpet restricts the natural creeping movement from evolving.) In such case, you place a floor “covering” on top of their carpet. Such covering is inexpensive (around $20) and is available in most home improvement stores. At the start of the course, we provide more specific information on possible floor covering options.

Since Brain Highways is only an educational program, we cannot accept insurance or flex plans.

Due to the large volume of people, worldwide, who inquire about Brain Highways (and the varying time zone challenges among such people), it’s not feasible for us to do phone call consultations. However, we’re happy to respond by email to any questions that are not answered on our site.

On the Programs introduction page, there's a recording of an entertaining podcast interview with Nancy Sokol Green (the creator of Brain Highways). Here, she answers why it's key to develop both our lower brain and restore our nervous system's flexibility and how that makes it possible to live most of our life in connection mode.