Our guest speaker at this week's Zoom meeting on Tuesday, 11 August was Dr Joy Lyneham.
Joy has been a critical care nurse for over forty years.
She has extensive experience working both in Australia and overseas.
Dr Lyneham started Academic life in 1985 while continuing on with clinical care practice.
Joy has taught at four different universities in three states, NSW, Victoria and Tasmania.
During her time as an academic, Joy has been mainly focused on ethics and acute care.
Joy was awarded her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 2003 undertaking research that examined intuitive practice in emergency nursing and violence in practice.
Since completing her PhD, joy has spend time doing further research into "disaster nursing".
In 2006, Dr Lyneham was invited to the University of Tasmania’s Conservatorium of Music to extrapolate the notion of intuition in music.
However, during her time at the Conservatorium she found something even more interesting - the notion of ‘Authentic being in the Performer space’.
This concept has been described by participants as a ‘Moment of Perfection’.
As part of her research when working with the Conservatorium Joy interviews ten musicians and last night she shared their experiences with us.
From an early age musicians learn complex auditory and motor skills which they practice extensively for the rest of their lives.
Musicians interviewed told Joy that when they are playing, "reality is suspended", there is a kind of "out of body experience" and they feel no "constructs or constraints". they just do!
The descriptions from the musicians spoke of "essence", "authentic self", "brilliant meditating" and "rich harmonics". "The music "was shaping their performances and they just surrended".
Listening to Joy the Editor felt a tinge of regret that he had quickly given up on the piano lessons that his mother had arranged when he was eight years old!
Joy addresses members on Zoom