It's all about balance- finding balance, creating balance, reestablishing balance. This travel mala offers 8mm howlite stone of tranquility, paired with snowflake obsidian-volcanic ash representing  transformatiion from fire to liquid to solid to highlight to process of change. Change is not  meant to be easy. Its meant to make you better or stronger. It can be unsetteliing along the way and you can feel off balance but maintain calm through the transformation- it will get better or you will get stronger or both.