It may mean becoming more flexible in using vision, through relaxing attention so that many other aspects of vision besides the peripheral will open. This opening supports a more relaxed and effortless way to see. The eyes don't work together. Many times this lack of integration in the eyes is also reflected in a lack of integration between the hemispheres of the brain and the lack of integration between both sides of the body. The reasons for strabismus can be many-fold.
Many eye doctors blame strabismus on weak eye muscles which control eye movements.
Behavioral Optometry believes that it is the brain that regulates the eye movements by directing the eye muscles. In order to treat strabismus one must first realize that it is a symptom of a deeper problem. In both cases, the child has a lack of awareness and control of how to coordinate the eyes and body. There are many psychological and emotional factors realting to why a person develops strabismus as an adaptation to seeing the world. Cross-eyed people usually see the world in one fixed way.