I initially was trained to do brain retraining with the use of muscle testing. I, too, found it to be confusing for both the student and myself. I also felt it was somewhat invasive, especially for teens. I do believe in muscle testing and I believe that it works. However, I thought about what it was being used to tell me, which was which system to remediate, and I decided to try using remediation with every system. I added other components that made sense to me, and then started trying this new system out on kids. This was about five or six years ago, and I have had outstanding results using brain retraining without muscle testing. Another reason I abandoned muscle testing is that it is very time consuming. I work for one hour with my students and after I shortened the brain retraining component I had more time to work on other areas that proved to be more beneficial. I have found that brain retraining is not a stand alone program. I use other activities to help strengthen the learning systems and this has worked every time. I have brought every student except one up to grade level or above using this system. The one that isn't above grade level has serious issues and has shown several years worth of growth.