[runarberg]

My advice, go for a walk. Download VLC on your phone (or any alternative that is ad-free), upload a CD or two you like to it, find some headphones (any headphones will do), start your CD and walk out the door. Walk as long as you feel like, stop for a soda pop if you feel like it and pause your CD while you are disturbed. If you arrive back before the CD finishes, that’s fine, try again for a longer walk (or a shorter CD) next time. If the CD finishes before your walk is over, great! You successfully listened to music. Start your second CD and walk home.

[errantspark]

I second this. I've got an old iPod and I go on walks daily listening to albums, playlists, sometimes just queuing stuff up on the fly as the mood strikes me. Never skipping a song that starts playing.

Tetris and Quake 3 vs bots also work very well to calm my mind so that I can zone into the music itself. YMMV

P.S. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jScy-kdCY4M <- this song is beautiful and I hope it makes some of y'all feels some emotions like it does for me : )

[BLKNSLVR]

Since you mentioned Quake 3, I like listening to track 5 of the original Quake soundtrack. As a song.

Welcome to your claustrophobic terror: https://youtu.be/UMcFgMbhU1w

And something for the feels, this is the soundtrack to ones ascent to heaven: https://youtu.be/LO7x_T7JP9k