help stay calm and they weren t working. first time i was back in the building i could still smell that kerosene smell which was unnerving. so it s interesting how a different sensory things play. our stress is also mitigated by our five senses. that s why we have the five senses. they are the stoplight, the traffic light on how we take in information on every level. kathleen hall is the founder of the stress institute. she left the corporate world to focus on stress. you lived the wall street life. it seems to me, stress was a badge of honor for sometimes. if you were more stressed you were working harder and more vicious. it became equated with success.