Music has many wonderful benefits for stress management and overall health. It can help you calm your physiology without making a conscious effort, and that can alleviate stress from your mind. Music can also lift your mood, slow your breathing, and create other stress-inducing changes. (Read this for more on the benefits of music.) Meditation is also one of the most popular stress management strategies for good reason--it brings short-term benefits like a calm mind and body, and it can build resilience toward stress over time.