How play can heal your nervous system | Jessica Maguire BHSci, MPhysio | TEDxByronBayWomen

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.

[a.t]

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.

[SingYourselfWell]

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!

[lilyhosie]

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

[EMERSONSA]

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.

[Lauren_Michelle_Jewel]

Thank you Jessica! Love the work you do and education you share ❤

[surjitletsgrow]

Thanks so much for this helpful information.

[simaroyaich-kfvu]

Excitement does have any talkings regarding procrastination...We need to get excited rather getting procrastinated👍

[rosalindreay]

Luv the comparison re Vegas! Well explained, thank you

[ashmeadali]

Another tool for all-round upliftment: Sing *HU* daily. Search how to sing *HU* .

[Tali]

Thank you, i very much enjoyed your talk but im wondering why you didnt mention Vagal breathing when you talked about the vagal nerve?

[livedsolutions]

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?