Silence is underrated. I sat in my room last night listening to some music with the candles lit. Turned my cell phone off. Pretty romantic actually, but it's nice to be romantic with yourself like that sometimes. For about an hour this went on. It was quite enjoyable. Then, I turned the music off. And something happened. I could not think of anything.I was drawing earlier in the day and had a lot to think about. When I was working before that, I had a lot to think about. And even when I went to bed, I still had a lot that I was thinking about. But, for about half an hour, when I was sitting back on my bed looking into my room, I felt really good. Just about as good as one can feel in a moment and I got there without doing anything. Absolutely remarkable.
I suppose it could be comparable to Buddhist meditation, but I'm not really comfortable with the idea of "focused meditation". It seems too forceful to me. You got to start with what's natural and it felt real natural. It's definitely worth a try.
