The Power of Music for Anxiety | Stress Reducing Tips | @caroline-cavanagh | Anxiety Alchemist

5 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief wellness tip, Caroline Cavanagh explains how our sense of hearing, which develops early in life, can be harnessed to alleviate stress and anxiety. She advises viewers to build a small, personal playlist of songs that trigger happy memories or simply feel uplifting. Using her own preference for lively Latino music as an example, she suggests starting with three to five tracks and continuously adding more. Whenever stress or low mood arises, playing the playlist can help lift the listener’s spirits and reduce anxiety.

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Our sense of hearing is one of the first to develop when we're born, and we can really use this as a way of reducing stress and anxiety when it hits. So my tip for today is to create a playlist of songs and tunes that either evoke happy memories for you or just make you feel good. For me, for example, I love Latino music, so whenever that comes on, it just makes me want to dance and lifts my mood. So create a playlist— 3, 4, 5 songs, and it doesn't matter, keep adding to it. And if ever you feel stressed or down, put that playlist on and just feel your mood lift.