How play can heal your nervous system | Jessica Maguire BHSci, MPhysio | TEDxByronBayWomen
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ส.ค. 2024
- Jessica Maguire explains how we can retrain our nervous system through the simple act of play. She explains the role of the vagus nerve in regulating our responses to stress and offers very simple and practical advice on how to incorporate play into our daily lives to promote a healthy, flexible nervous system.
Jessica Maguire holds a Bachelor of Health Science degree and a Masters of Physiotherapy. Her post graduate study includes the fields of neuroscience, neuroplasticity, brain-heart biofeedback, brain-body medicine and transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation.
As a TEDx speaker and lecturer, she believes that knowledge is power. Jessica teaches a long-term, sustainable, profoundly transformative methodology of nervous system repair, empowering students to step into the driver’s seat of their own health and wellbeing.
Her aim is to create true freedom from nervous system dysregulation and all the painful side effects that it causes. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
It has cost me at least 10 years of healing that modern medicine doesn't know this. They always told me to relax but I couldn't get out of freeze mode. It wasn't until I started body therapy through light movements that I was able to release the energy that was stuck in my body.
Play, enjoyment, laughter, singing, dancing are powerful tools for healing and mankind has used them for thausends of years to regulate their bodies but modern society seems to have completely forgotten about them.
It's amazing when you have any illness off the beaten track how little medical experts can/try help
Thank you, Jessica, so great to hear this confirmation! The holistic nature of opera singing is all that and more! Playing, activating facial muscles, smiling, eye movements to communicate strong emotions, breath, faster inhale, longer exhale naturally, diaphragm, posture, flow, voice, toning, singing with using all tones, moving around, all of it activates the vagus nerve. I describe all of this in my book. So Sing Yourself Well!
your book?
@@TheBillaro yes! ✨🎶✨
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That sounds amazing! May have to try it.
My brother trained as an opera singer too. And I myself done enough singing to know exactly what you mean, although it's not specifically just 'opera' singing, but singing with a healthy technique generally.
One thing that it's easy to not realise, and this is true of dance too, which my field, when you are singing to perform - or practising it too, really hooks into the fundamentally playful nature of performance. You get to try on things, play roles, decide you've not been cranky enough in that phrase, or placating enough on another phrase or whatever. It's an enormous amount of fun!
And it's an incredible buzz to be one person helping create this amazing Thing with so many others, both singers, dancers (most opera has a part especially for dancers, there's some interesting history behind that!) musicians, stagehands, the list goes on.
Also just... you feel it, it isn't just in your head but your entire body. It's so much fun!
I shall now go look for your book!
So good to see a fellow physiotherapist talking from this perspective! So optimistic for the future of health/physio, treating physical symptoms from the root
Congratulations Jessica from Brazil, South America... I'm working on this wonderful subject and I loved being featured on TED. Stay firm on this path, as it has a great future.
She's not south American. She's Australian.
Thank you Jessica! Love the work you do and education you share ❤
Excitement does have any talkings regarding procrastination...We need to get excited rather getting procrastinated👍
It’s important to cure nervous system
Luv the comparison re Vegas! Well explained, thank you
The audience didn't seem to get the "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas" joke 😅
Thankyou Jessica
Another tool for all-round upliftment: Sing *HU* daily. Search how to sing *HU* .
Great talk!!
Beautiful talk ty v much
Thank you!
Thank you, i very much enjoyed your talk but im wondering why you didnt mention Vagal breathing when you talked about the vagal nerve?
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I feel nervous after listen to her.
I feel she did amazing!
@@Lauren_Michelle_Jewel Yes I think so too. I have done her course so I know how much knowledge she has. But I am just saying I feel nervous listening to her nervous voice. I have been on stage and felt the same. I wished she would be a good teacher and helped us overcome stage fear.
Same Peter! Jessica's breathing was making me really anxious. I hope she didn't FEEL as nervous as she sounds. However, a brilliant talk.
@Joan Arc Hold on a moment Joan. Did we critcise Jessica? No. We praised her talk. Did we sympathise with her? Yes. Did we say that it made US feel uncomfortable? Yes. This does not mean we have no common sense! A lot of people watching Jessica's talk are doing so because they have dysregulated nervous systems and they are seeking her wisdom to help them. You have probably heard of "co-regulation" - well this goes both ways. Our nervous systems will match a fearful system as much as a calm, regulated one. We have sought a video that will HELP us and although the information IS helpful, we still come away feeling much WORSE because of what we picked up from Jessica's speaking and breathing. That's all. Sympathy amongst viewers is permitted, Joan Arc! As I commented, I feel for her for apparently feeling so nervous (as you say, that's normal with public speaking) and I also feel for anyone who, like myself, came away with things like palpitations, muscle tension, feelings of nausea as a result of "co-regulating" with her nerves.
You can understand and feel other people's discomfort -- the mastery comes when you don't make those feelings your own. That takes awareness and conscious effort. She was an honest, authentic speaker - I applaud her - she felt the fear of public speaking and did it anyway.
I noticed on your Facebook page that your reccomendations are from people who say they are experiencing HIV and other conditions which have no clear link to nervous system issues. Wouldn't that be out of your professional scope of practice?
Disease and stress does affect your nervous system...medical conditions exacerbate under moments of stress - such as blood sugars, blood pressures, and overall health outcomes.