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way children can benefit. Many parents encourage their children to pursue expression through musical performance. They claim intrinsic benefits for the child that are difficult to gain in any other way. This means that parents enroll their kids in musical performance classes to help their child develop as a productive member of society as opposed to future financial gain. Children show an increase in academic performance, intellectual development, personal growth, and discipline. This helps to solve many of the problems that parents have while raising a child.

Moving into adulthood, the benefits from music do not cease to exist. It is believed that listening to Mozart has a profound affect on intelligence. From personal experience, listening to music while studying or taking an exam helps me to relax, clears my mind from test anxiety, and makes it easier to recall useful information that I studied earlier.

As adults, performing music has many profound positive effects on daily life. Through practice, a routine is developed that can be directly correlated to setting up a routine in day to day activities. It develops courage to try new things and express new ideas that would not be articulated otherwise. Musicians learn to overcome problems through persistence to reach a specific goal. They also find out how to be spontaneous and sensitive while slowing down their surroundings for observation and appreciation. Performance helps to balance daily life by adapting the on stage corrections to making meaningful changes in daily habits. It also teaches reflection and patience when things do not go as planned. Expression, however, is the most important thing that is learned from practicing and performing music. Feelings can be expressed openly and authentically, while emotions are released from deep within. These things cannot be conveyed by words alone. Without music, all of these attributes would be difficult to attain and would develop much more slowly.

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