In situations like these we will often feel like running away or punching our enemy on the nose. The same stress hormones that help us to survive in life-threatening sitautions make us aggressive or over-vigilant, and tend too cause us to overreact at other times. The all leads to a difficult situation in which our automatic, predictable and unconscious reaction can actually work against our emotional, spychological and spiritual survival by causing a build-up of stress hormones.