Sensory motor development is influenced by the imprints of gestation, birth, and bonding.  These early pre-verbal experiences shape how we see, hear, move, and experience our social engagement

Take for example a child with strabismus (crossed eyes).

The child may have developed crossed eyes due to stress, karma, genetics, toxicity, or an adaptive response to trauma, which manifests in the eyes but actually exists in the person’s consciousness.  We can learn more from the child’s movement, posture, emotional responses, and energy patterns.  These children often do well with a re-education movement process, using a developmental lens that involves the eyes-brain-body-spirit. While it might take more time before you see results, they will be much longer lasting.

A misguided protocol is forcing a child to wear a patch over the so-called stronger eye for 8 hours a day to “force” the weak eye to work.  This idea is nothing more than cave-man medicine.  First of all, I would ask all the eye doctors out there to wear a patch 8 hours a day and let me know how YOU feel after a week.  No child has the resources to understand why the doctor is recommending this.

Putting aside of the traumatic effects on the children subjected to it, this treatment does not work. The eye patch teaches the eyes that they are separate from the rest of the body. But since the eyes are actually an extension of the brain and body, a better approach is to help the child to self-discover: “Look, I have two eyes! Look, they are part of my body!”  If we can help children learn how to use their two eyes in the context of connecting to their body through balancing, moving, and thinking, there is a much better chance for both eyes to work together. Again this process may take more time, but it is healing rather than traumatizing, and the results are transformative and long lasting.

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