Mohs hardness scale 5.5–6
When your nervous system relaxes, your mind can suddenly see patterns that were previously obscured: intuition and intellect, collective consciousness and individual observations come into balance. You gain perspective and can lean into your own wisdom. In this quiet inner-place, you begin to trust yourself and feel steady in the world. For all this to happen, Sodalite murmurs, you need to come to calm. You need to soften every bit of you, all the way down to the minute motions of the dendrites of your nerve cells. Take a deep breath, blow out the stress, the questions, the agitation. Come, actively, to calm.
Ritual 
Mediterranean countries know the power of rest. Afternoon naps are encouraged, if not for actual sleep then for getting quiet and still so you can recharge your internal battery.
Create a personal culture of rest by designating a time to nap. Not an oops-I-fell-asleep nap, but an intentional time to lie down and allow yourself to go quiet. Depending on your life, this might happen daily or once a week. Schedule it so you can anticipate it!
What feels truly restful for you?
Do you nap in bed, on the sofa, or outside in a hammock?
Is there music or silence?
Are you in darkness or napping like a cat in a pool of sunlight?
Allow your nap time to be a ritual of reset. Go into it intentionally, setting the scene for optimal relaxation so you can come back into balance.
Reflection
When you’re in fight-or-flight response mode, you can’t hear the voice of your heart. And actually, you’re not supposed to; our bodies are hardwired to get us out of danger (if Neolithic woman hung around wondering if it was her dharma to get eaten by the saber-toothed tiger, our species would have died off long ago).
While our fight-or-flight reflex worked great for saber-toothed tigers, it’s not as useful for the stressors of modern life. Daily stresses send us, biologically, into fight-or-flight. Which means even a traffic jam can put you into reactive mode. The most important thing to know about being in constant low-grade reaction is, you don’t realize you’re in it.
Like unskilled poker players, many of us have tells that show up when we are under stress. Maybe you bite your nails or twist your hair. Perhaps you talk (or scream) at other drivers on the road as if they can hear you. Do you know what your personal tells are? The first step to soothing the fight-or-flight response is to know you are in it!