What are some good ways to cool off when you are angry?

I hate to be cliche, but…
A good record usually does it for me
Also meditating works.

Walk away from the situation/people. Take deep breaths and count to ten in your head.

I do stuff. Like walk the dogs. Clean the house. Go to the gym. I need to be moving to let steam off.

Physical movement, like walking briskly, and deep breathing.

I go for a drive…alone. I think the situation over and always calm down before I go back to the situation that upset me again. (If you are too upset to drive, obviously this is not a good idea…)

Work out for about ten to fifteen minutes. Doesn’t matter what you do, but it’ll release endorphins which are the feel-good chemicals in our brains.

Venting is not my recommended solution. Venting just predisposes a person to act out their anger.

Learning to not let little things get to you is about practice. Sometimes you succeed, sometimes you may not. Getting angry really doesn’t help anything. It certainly doesn’t help you.

That’s not to say that if we do any certain particular thing that nothing will ever anger us again, but learning to let it go and understanding the relative importance of transgressions against you will help you deal with those situations calmly.

People who do nasty things to us, are doing so because they have a problem and they’re trying to project their problems on to others. We don’t have to let others’ problems become our problems.

Lastly, let the little stuff slide. Most of the stuff, is little stiff.

Why has no one mentioned masturbation yet?

Also, I agree with TCH

because you might tear it off?

Anger is a choice. Choose not to get angry. Of course, you’ll never sell this to my wife or any other wives, but it works for me.

Work out or go running. I have had problems with anger management and doing something physically draining usually makes me feel better.

I always find reading for awhile changes my brain around.

remember something that made you cry. then go to sleep.

Sometimes I will go take a really hot shower and have my music from my laptop playing while im in the shower and somtimes ill sit down and cry (being in the shower no one can hear me cry), or sometimes ill even stand/sit there and talk crap about the person to mid air just to blow off the steam (this way no one hears it and no one gets hurt feelings)...
Or ill go into my room blastt music and do some yoga stretches for about 15 min, and ill mostlikely forget what happened or i wonder why it pissed me off so much i just walk away and then i feel alot better.

I walk away if possible, and swear up a storm. Nothing like a long-winded rant of creatively constructed swear words to make me feel better. And sometimes, if I am really mad, I will create a funny mental image while I am swearing (that most other folks would call extremely evil) and that helps to rid me of the anger.

@The_Compassionate_Heretic – has it right, allowing yourself to get mad is not a good choice. I try to say to myself, I am not going to get embroiled in his/her crap. It’s not about me, it’s their problem.

It does take practice and it is always easier to want someone else to control themselves so then I don’t have to control myself, but unfortunately in real life, it rarely works that way.

Spend a couple of hours in the driving range of your golf club.

Find a punching bag and beat the shit out of it. If you can’t find a pinching bag, start cussing until you feel better.