Mohs hardness scale: 5.5–6
When you’re feeling calm and centered, your heart beats in an even rhythm. Listening to it becomes self-soothing, helping you remember your personal cadence. But when you’re anxious, especially when you’re perpetually anxious, your heart stutters and skips. Your own skittish heart sends you deeper into unease and angst. But it’s not your heart that’s the problem. The problem lies deeper, rooted in the vulnerability that is causing the anxiety. Put your hand on your heart, Rhodonite instructs. Close your eyes and feel its beat. Once you’re in sync with yourself, ask your heart what’s feeding its anxiety. To heal your heart, you need to first know in what way you feel vulnerable in the world. It’s time for this first step.
Ritual 
Rhodonite is used to heal wounds, whether physical or emotional. It closes gaps and seals leaks so you can remember how to be whole. Your energy body can get leaky in places where it’s thin or torn. These holes leave you vulnerable to outside influences. They may slowly siphon your energy, leaving you feeling scattered, weak, or panicky.
Energy follows intention, so sealing up your energy can be done with active imagining. First choose your tool: Will you envision stitching the holes with a needle and thread? Taping with duct tape? It doesn’t need to be pretty or fancy, it just needs to feel real to you.
Now close your eyes and imagine that you know where every energy leak is. Seal them, one at a time, calling on the rosy glow of Rhodonite to help you heal.
Reflection
Some emotions are smooth like river rocks and warm like a hearth stone. These are emotions we treasure and return to, letting them remind us of the goodness of the world and the joy of being alive.
But other emotions are jagged and rough, they continue to poke and prod at us until we consciously release them. Anger and resentment are like this, and nurturing them can create wounds and energy leaks. While the original hurt may have been precipitated by someone else, when you hold tight to these clawing emotions, you’re harming yourself and injuring your own heart. If you need to cut a cord between you and someone or something in your past, see the ritual for Obsidian, Cutting Cords.
What old wounds are festering?
What scars need tending?
What fears or resentments are hurting you from the inside out?
For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.
Reba McEntire