Preventing tilt: how do you cool down?

[PGremlin]

I am a little bit upset with myself tonight, because I made a stupid mistake which made my good play be for nothing. Hate being a bubble boy. Now I wonder... is there a good way to cool down? I normally take a break and start doing something else, like watch some TV or something like that. But when I do that I stay away for an hour or more. Is there a faster way? What do you guys do to cool down when you're a bit upset about your game?

[deadlydaveLDN]

Re: Preventing tilt: how do you cool down? I play 6-8 tables at once, and if I do something stupid I think through what I should have done, if I get a beat I laugh it off, and I moved onto the next hand at the next table. A while ago I heard someone say "Why tilt, when you could just not tilt?" And as ridiculously simple as it sounds, everytime I feel like I might be about to tilt I just think of that phrase. That is not to say I never tilt, but I do it very rarely these days (compared to often before), I also play exclusivley MTTs now so I can't spew off a few cash buy-ins on tilt.