Passion Struck with John R. Miles - Helen Ye Plehn on Your Soul Knows the Way — Follow It | EP 643

Episode Date: July 29, 2025

In this illuminating episode of Passion Struck, John R. Miles welcomes Helen Ye Plehn—intuitive spiritual psychologist, Zen Executive Coach, and author of The Aura Color Wheel: What Your Soul’s Aura Reveals About Your Inner Gifts, Wounds, and Lessons. Together, they unpack the soul’s inner knowing and how tuning into it can radically shift how we live, lead, and heal.Helen reveals how the colors of your aura reflect more than energy—they tell the story of your emotional imprints, inherited patterns, and untapped gifts. This conversation weaves through her personal journey from corporate executive to soul guide, and the role of trauma, stillness, and surrender in helping us come home to ourselves.Whether you’re navigating burnout, disconnection, or a spiritual awakening, this episode offers tools to align your outer world with your inner essence—so you’re not just surviving, but soulfully thriving.Visit this link for the full show notes.Go Deeper: The Ignited Life SubstackIf this episode stirred something in you, The Ignited Life is where the transformation continues. Each week, I share behind-the-scenes insights, science-backed tools, and personal reflections to help you turn intention into action.Subscribe🔗  and get the companion resources delivered straight to your inbox.Catch more of Helen Ye Plehn: https://helencreatesbeauty.com/If you liked the show, please leave us a review—it only takes a moment and helps us reach more people! Don’t forget to include your Twitter or Instagram handle so we can thank you personally.How to Connect with John:Connect with John on Twitter at @John_RMilesFollow him on Instagram at @John_R_MilesSubscribe to our main YouTube Channel and to our YouTube Clips ChannelFor more insights and resources, visit John’s websiteSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Coming up next on Passion Strike. No matter how much money I have, I still will tell people they should go meditate. Same thing, if you can answer that question with clarity, like that's really close to what you're here to do. I will still do painting. No matter my painting sells or not, I'm still painting. So that's like, you know that you are in alignment with your soul's purpose. Welcome to Passion Struck. Hi, I'm your host, John R. Miles.

And on the show, we decipher the secrets, tips, and guidance of the world's most inspiring people and turn their wisdom into practical advice for you and those around you. Our mission is to help you unlock the power of intentionality so that you can become the best version of yourself. If you're new to the show, I offer advice and answer listener questions on Fridays. We have long form interviews the rest of the week with guests ranging from astronauts to authors, CEOs, creators, innovators, scientists, military leaders, visionaries, and athletes. Now, let's go out there and become Passion Struck. Welcome to episode 643 of Passion Struck, the podcast that ignites change from the inside out so that you can live with deeper intention, meaning and purpose.

I'm your host John Miles. And I want to thank you so much today for joining me. All month long, we've been exploring the series, the power to do more by discussing why we shouldn't be grinding harder, but aligning more fully with our truth, our values, with the essence of who we really are. Last week I had two powerful interviews. On Tuesday Oliver Berkman joined me to remind us that you don't have to do more to matter more. That presence not productivity is a deeper path to meaning. Then on Thursday I sat down with former NASA astronaut Susan Kilrain to explore what happens after you reach the summit and how to reinvent yourself when the mission that wants to find

you is complete. And now in today's episode we step into the energetic dimension of purpose and identity. Because sometimes the clearest path forward doesn't come from logic, it comes from listening to your soul. My guest today is Helen Yee Plin, a third generation feng shui master, intuitive painter, and visionary educator who spent decades bridging ancient wisdom and modern consciousness. In her new book, The Aura Color Wheel, Helen introduces a soul-based system to help you uncover your life's purpose through the vibrational language of color and energy. Together we explore why your aura isn't just energy, it's your soul story in motion. We go into the 36 soul aura colors and nine soul gift archetypes that shape your destiny. Why?

In order to identify the emotional wounds, gifts, and lessons encoded in your field. You need a map, and how to use this insight is a compass to transformation, not as a label for limitation. This is a conversation for anyone navigating transition, seeking alignment, or longing to understand the unseen forces that shape their path. Before we begin, be sure to visit the ignitedlife.net, where I share weekly reflections, rituals, and resources to help you turn insight into action. You can also find full episodes and highlights from today's conversation

on our YouTube channels at either John or Miles or PassionStruckClips. All right, let's tap into the unseen and unlock the power that lives within. Here's my illuminating conversation with Helen Yee Plin. Thank you for choosing PassionStruck and choosing me to be your host and guide on your journey to creating an intentional life. Now, let that journey begin. I am absolutely thrilled today to welcome Helen Yee Plen to PassionStruck. Welcome Helen, how are you today?

I'm doing great. Thank you, John, how are you today? I'm doing great. Thank you John for having me today. Helen, you have such a rich background. Yoga, feng shui, painting, energy work. What was the spark that led you to go down the path of investing in all of these rich things that have ingrained your life? That's such a great question. I think my wake-up call, I call it my wake-up call, is in 2011. At the time, I was actually in a PhD program that I was born to do, because I was born and raised in China,

and moved to the U for higher degree education. That's when I realized that I was walking my parents' expectation or say the society's expectation of me. So you just like in terms of having a successful life or proper job, you need to become either a PhD, a dentist, a lawyer, accountant, if you're not an astronaut. Okay, so that was the path I was on all the way until I was in the PhD program. And then I realized, what the heck I'm doing here right now. That was 2011, I think I was around 26, 27, and I had severe anxiety and depression.

That was like, I was almost there. And I had a lot of pressure under like publish or perish paradigm in academia world. And I frequent therapist office. And I remember there was one time I did a psychology evaluation. And the therapy asked me, well, you're such a free spirit. Why are you doing statistical analysis? What are you doing? So that was my wake up call of starting to ask who am I, why am I here?

And how can I truly be happy? And from then on, I went on a deep self discovery journey. And the first stop was the yoga and meditation teacher training. I just feel drawn to it. And at the time I live in Philadelphia, so there is a yoga studio, actually So I went there and then I told the teacher that I'm completely lost. What can I do? And he offered me the teacher training. He said that you might find the answer inside. And I'm like, sure. And I remember the first time I did meditation within a group, I was

in a group of three people, and I was like, okay, I'm going to do yoga. I'm going to do yoga. I'm going to do yoga. I'm going to do yoga. I'm going to do yoga. I'm going to do yoga. I'm going to do yoga. I'm going to do yoga. I'm going to do yoga. I'm going to do yoga. I'm going to answer inside and I'm like sure. And I remember the first time I did meditation within a group, I was crying like a baby. I've never done any spiritual practice at all at the time,

let alone meditation, but I was crying so much, I was releasing so much fear, guilt, doubt, a lot of stuff and then I get hooked on meditation from then on and three months after my daily meditation only 20 minutes a day I was off all anxiety and depression medication I was on at that time. I was so bad that I actually visited an ER during like due to panic attack. And because of that miracle, I'm like, wow, meditation can actually become your medication. So from that on, I just do daily meditation every single day, never stop till now. It's almost 15 years, 14, 15 years I've been doing it. That's the beginning. And then in terms of from my career,

I switched to interior architecture and design. So basically I went back to school for my second degree because then we moved to California in order to practice architecture. I need a license. So I need a formal degree to do that, which I absolutely love. And it's in between that, which I absolutely love.

And it's in between that analytical mind and creative mind. So steering me towards more a creative side of myself with my technical skills. And then that kind of spurning to feng shui, I incorporated more of the feng shui into my practice. Because I was born a third generation feng shui into my practice because I was born a third generation feng shui master. My, I just am born and live in that environment. I just know what to do actually. And from then on it evolved into painting and art because a lot of my clients just asked me to do custom design for them according to their feng shui birth element

and their, the energy, their comfort meant to them. So it's like organic in terms of for my art practice to evolve. And at the same time, parallel that my spiritual practice never stopped. Because once I got hooked on meditation, I started to learn all the spiritual wisdom to know myself. I still remember my first reading, astrology reading. I didn't know Christopher. I still remember my first reading astrology reading. I didn't know Christopher, I still remember his name. I didn't know him at all. And he would look at my chart, he said that Helen, this life, your dharma, so your soul's purpose this lifetime is to create. And I'm like, okay, this guy doesn't know me at all. And

he can just look at my birthday and tell me every single thing that I need to know about my life. So that's when I started to study Vedic astrology, Western astrology, genie keys, enneagram, human design, like you name it, I've studied it. To the point that it's almost like a research, like the go back to the PhD research. It's just fascinating to me. It's wow, it's a wealth of knowledge that I want to think. And I become a certified crystal healer and from that all that spiritual practice, I think in 2018 I had a spontaneous kundalini awakening. So it's about seven years in at a time. 2011 is when I started and 2018 is when when I had that surreal Kundalini awakening. I wasn't prepared for it, but that's when my third eye began to wide open.

Now, if you asked me 10 years ago, if I believe in angels and spirits and all that stuff, I would tell you that no, they don't exist, okay? So I wasn't born anything near to psychic, okay, I was born really much in the 3D realm. But because I begin to tune in to see auras, to see the spirit realm, my perspective shift hugely. So from then on, I also incorporate spiritual teaching in my business besides painting painting and feng shui. It's a little bit a long story, but that's encompassed my personal

journey to where I'm at today. Yeah. I'm not sure if you're familiar with the Yangge Mingor Rinpoche. He's a Buddhist monk and I had him on the podcast a number of weeks ago. And he told me a similar story that when he was younger, panic attacks were really controlling his life. And he got into the practice of mindfulness

to better control them. And now he sees that the panic attacks were just a kind of a placeholder to get him where he needed to go in a spiritual journey. So I love that both your stories kind of line up like that. Oh, definitely. I feel that way as well. Helen, I really appreciate the fact that you took the time to read my book, Action Struck.

And I opened up the book in the first mindset shift that you need to do, talking about that we really need to find our purpose in life. And I talk about the mask in this chapter that you indicated you were wearing that I felt I was wearing. And you describe yourself as a sole purpose catalyst, which is why I brought this up. What does that mean to you? Because I think of it in a very similar way. I came at it from a different perspective,

but I think we're talking about a similar thing. And how can someone know when they're out of alignment with their soul's purpose? Absolutely love it. Yeah, I actually thoroughly enjoy reading your book, John. Because as you mentioned, we are just literally talking about the same thing from a different angle. And the sixth mindset, like you mentioned the 12 principles

in your book to find your soul's purpose. It's literally like what I mentioned in the six aura colors, it really coincide. It no matter is from mindset and action. I just talking about it from an energy level standpoint. Now going back to your question, if you ask how do you feel like you are misaligned or you're not in alignment with your soul's purpose,

that you feel like, remember I will use this quote, I think Oprah Winfrey had once said that if you are not really doing what your soul is supposed to do, first life will throw you some pebbles. And later on, if you're still not choosing what your soul is supposed to do, it begins to throw you some rocks. And those are the extreme situations.

From a physical standpoint, it can manifest into even cancer that you're not doing what you're doing. For me, it was panic attack. Right. So it can be different symptoms, but something that you're really misalignment. Now, from a mental or emotional standpoint, you're basically not happy. You're feeling lost. You're not fulfilled, even though maybe you have a great job or great status, a lot of money, but you're still feeling empty inside.

That's from an emotional or mental standpoint. And from a spiritual standpoint, you feel really disconnected, like disconnected either with spirit or with your ancestors, or basically disconnected with a realm that is higher than your personal self, right? Because if you are really going with your mission, you know that not only for your fame or for the money, it's not about money and fame. It's like you're so passionate about this thing. This is literally your first principle of the mindset. It's so passionate about it. If you don't do this a day, you literally feel lost. You have to do it. And you do it for the highest good,

literally for everybody else. It's the oneness principle that I want to bring in. It's like we're not disconnected with everybody. Even though, a great question, I think very similar to what you asked, the first exercise I will ask people is that, if you already have a billion dollars in your bank account, you don't worry about money, you don't worry about a thing, you're healthy, happy, everything, what would you do?

Will you still doing this exact thing that you do today? I will still meditate, no matter how much money I have, I still will tell people they should go meditate. Same thing, if you can answer that question with clarity, like that's really close to what you're here to do. I will still do painting, no matter my painting sells or not, I'm still painting. So that's like, you know that you are in alignment

with your soul's purpose. Thank you so much for sharing that Helen and today we are discussing your brand new book came out on July 15th it's called the Aura Color Wheel what your soul's aura reveals about your inner gifts wounds and lessons and this is the second podcast I've done on Passion Struck abouturas. The first one was with my friend, Amy Lee McCree. And I shared with her that earlier in my life, I ended up having a couple traumatic brain injuries. And after I experienced one of those, it awakened, like you were saying,

maybe a third eye inside of me. And I started to see auras. And at first it really freaked me out because I didn't understand it until I did more research on it. But in your introduction of the book you say your aura isn't just energy, it's a soul's story in motion. Can you unpack that for listeners who are unfamiliar with auras? Definitely. Aura is the electromagnetic field around you. We, like every living thing, including plants and animals and, of course, human, we all have it. It's just that subtle energy field that

vibrates, electric and magnetic. Now, I want to mention there that there are three types of auras. So that there were three types of auras, so meaning there are three types of electromagnetic field around you. The first type is what's called the mood aura. Now the mood aura change and shift all the time and it's around your face. Just like some people will mention that oh your face is turning red right so that indicates this person is either being shy or really angry. So like you can intuitively, even if you cannot see it in your third eye, maybe

you can perceive it, right? So that's your mood aura. That changes all the time. And there's another type of aura that's semi-permanent called the personality aura. Now personality aura is typically around your head like on top of your head and that tells me whether a person is an outgoing person, introvert whether it's an analytical person or intuitive person. It's semi-permanent but it only shifts and changes when there's big events in your life, literally alter your personality a little bit, right?

So it's a little bit more permanent. Now when I mentioned that the soul story or emotion, that's your soul aura. Your soul aura is around your heart chakra, literally in the center of your chest. Now that particular energy is when your soul incarnated, no matter you believe incarnation or not, which I do, it's literally when your soul is resigned. So that it tells me, so what is energy? Energy is just information that vibrates, okay? Just which organ goes to particular part inside of your body, this energy, this soul aura energy tells me that your soul has a total sum of gifts, wounds, and lessons that incarnated from accumulated past lives.

So that's the particular energy or the particular color that it radiates because different energy has different frequency and wavelength thus coincide with different color. So it tells me three key pieces of information about you. It tells me what you're born like really strong with and what is your wound, what you're here to heal and what the lessons are here to learn. Now how do we have these auras or this energy field? It's powered by the seven main energy centers along our spine. So in Indian traditions we call them the traquas. So those are the seven major powerhouse

of the aura layers but that doesn't mean that's the only one. There are actually more than that but those seven main aura layers coincide with the rainbow like the rainbow colors from red to violet. Those are the main powerhouse of our aura and your soul aura tells me literally like what you're here to do because if if that's your gift, for example, I'm born as an artist soul gift archetype. I wasn't an artist when I went all the way to my PhD studies, right? That's more suitable for a researcher soul gift archetype.

So if you are in alignment of that, it helps you to kick down a Loll-O-Imposter syndrome to do what your soul is here to be of service. So that's what the soul aura tells me about you. I'm going to jump from the beginning of the book to the end of the book. So I remember a number of years ago, I was going through a healing process and I had a healer who was examining me and she was telling me that I had two spirit guides who were very strong in my life, who were trying to, I wouldn't say block her, but she was doing reiki on me, but they were really putting up a wall to protect me. And in chapter 18, you write that there are nine types of spiritual guides with whom we can connect with and call upon for assistance.

For someone who might not necessarily believe in these things that's listening to this. How can you make this more real for it? Because earlier in my life, I didn't really believe in these things. But once I started doing more spiritual work, it really opened me up to re-examine how I was looking at the whole universe. Oh, yes. That's my perspective shift. Thank you for sharing that, John. Staying with you, like at the whole universe. Oh yes. That's my perspective shift. Thank you for sharing that John. Same with you. Like at the beginning of my life, I didn't trust this.

If it's not for my Kundalini awakening or probably not for your accident that happened that you opened up your third eye, you wouldn't believe this. So from a practical standpoint, if you can tune in, I feel this the strongest, but like with spirit actually within nature. If you feel awe, a sense of awe in nature, while you're climbing up the mountain or while you're in the forest or while you near the ocean,

something that strike really subtle in you, even though you don't know what's a spirit team, what doesn't matter, you feel a sense of awe. And you know that something magical or something bigger that's more powerful is connecting with you holding you or something. That's basically the energy of spirit is talking to you. And that's like the first sense if you don't you want to and then if you try to play with it because it's subtle energy. So the more meditation practice you do that you'll be able to calm your mind, right?

The easier that you can receive these subtleties. And then the first step that I would say, even for me, is seeing colors. They were thumbs up. It's seeing auras. So if you don't identify as specific, like an angel name or things like that, you will see things with different colors. And those are the energy they naturally radiate. For example, if you allow me, John, I can sense Archangel Michael is really strong with you.

He's an angel with indigo blue ray of light. And he's the angel of protection. And some of my students or clients coming from, some have religious backgrounds. I do not grow up religious, but you learn some of the names, some of the who's which angel and what they do. And that's also a good beginning point

to learn maybe their names and things like that. And the more you tune in to that nature's spirit or during your meditation, you're seeing the energy. And sometimes you're studying from the books and things like that. Like my chapter 18 I mentioned, I literally have a list of all of them. Then you coincide, you know their correspondence. And then I would play. I would recommend anybody that you don't believe it yet. That's my first step.

I play with them. What did I do is that in my meditation, I said a prayer or do you just talk to them? I said that, okay, guardian angel, I heard everybody said that you're here, but I don't know who you are. Can you show me a sign? Can you show me a sign that's so specific

that only I will know that you're talking to me? At the time I had asked for a sign of an orchid flower because that's my father's favorite flower. He passed away when I was 19 and I still hold him really dear in my heart. So then, because I live in Southern California, orchid is everywhere in the supermarkets and my guardian angel know that if he just sold me an orchid flower, that's not special enough.

And what he did, he did play with me. So one day I was cleaning my closet. We're moving from Northern California to Southern California. I clean up my closet and an orchid, a dry orchid flower coming out from my yoga teacher training menu. It was dry and fell off. And what my body knows, I instinctively have this tingling sensation. It's almost like you're in shark or something.

You have that shaking sensation. And my eyes are almost bursting to tears. I wasn't crying, but I had that emotion response. If that triggers something inside of your heart, you're super emotional, it's almost like holding your first baby or something like that, that's freaking true. If you can lie, that sensation.

So I will say that's a great entry point, that sense of awe, that feeling. And pretty much like 95% of my students and clients who are not like don't believe in anything who and came to my class, I asked them to try to talk to that guy like that. They all say that, yeah, I see on the, that literally says angel there, but that sign was never up. And then the other day, I just look, I was driving the car, I look up on the sky, I see a clearly face of my ancestor that no, but of course no one knows.

And things like that, that's how they are communicating with you, because the first step is that you have to open and give permission. It's almost okay I'm going to play let's see if this is going to happen and once you get a little bit of more of that then you realize okay let me surrender and maybe I can tune in more and that nine type of guys that I channel in my book it's through the almost like six or seven years of accumulation.

It's like playing like this to get them up. And I remember the first time is angels, I mentioned about them. And then there was also your ancestors. That's a second type of guy. And there was also star beings. You can tune into the star systems. Like at nighttime, if you're visiting Sedona,

it's a really clear sky. You can talk to star beings. With animals, there was also animal guides and fairies, elementals, the water, the flowers, the nature, as well as I call them the temporary guides. The temporary guides are expert guides that come here to help you with a specific project. Like I see a lot of them behind surgeons when they're doing surgery.

Doctors, same with me, writing a book, music composers. So those are the expert guides. And there are two more like BETs as well as goddess and ascended masters that have walked the path like Jesus Christ and Buddha. So those are the guys that I mentioned in the book that you can call out to actually literally help you open your third eye to see them, to communicate with them.

I hope this helps as the beginning to play with them and how to communicate with them. I just found it was really interesting how you went through those. And then in chapter 18, you started talking about ascended masters and ancestors, the role of deities, nature spirits, fairies, animal spirits, star beings, expert guides, et cetera.

It seems if you want to connect with your spirit team, you have to do what you mentioned earlier. You have to tune in and give them permission to take action. Why is that such an essential step? That's very important because remember, like at the beginning, I didn't even trust it. I don't even believe it's here. It's a belief.

Going back to your first, the first principle of a belief. It's such an important thing because in the spirit realm, now I am able to tune in, so now I know. Because it runs in free will. They won't enter, like they won't give you anything unless you're willing to open to receive it. So they won't just like, yeah I'm here to protect you, but if you are like, you're willing to open to receive it. So they won't just like, yeah, I'm here to protect you, but if you are like, you're not allowing, you're not giving me permission, I'm not going to bother you in your life.

Because in the spirit realm, they run in free will. So it's a choice. Like you can choose to live your, I still remember like, do you wanna choose this to live your passion? Or do you wanna choose this to just be good enough? So the same thing in the spirit realm is do you choose to try? Now, I, when I mentioned like at the beginning, I'm literally like

one foot in one foot out and it's totally okay. If you are just open, teeny little bit open, it's already good enough. They are like, okay, this soul is already teeny bit open for me. Let me give him some hint and I'll give him some more if he's open even more. And now I will say that I'm completely 100% surrender. When you let go, and that's actually probably a lot of the Buddhist practice is about, it's literally to surrender your ego and be in alignment with spirit. And miracles always happens. Just a book, just literally just like how I get

into publish this book of Hay House, it's completely guided by spirit. It's funny, like I literally receive once I channel the full system, I haven't had a full book yet, but I was in the channeling mode. I've written down, it's my automatic writing practice. I literally have an email dropping my mailbox from Hay House. And I never signed up their email list at the beginning. Like I read a lot of books from their authors, but I didn't sign up for the weekly email or whatever. All of a sudden email drops in saying that, hey, we have a writers, a community and welcome people who want to publish works to join. And of course it's a

competition. So basically you submit your book proposal and whoever wins got the contract. And I literally just say that, okay, thank you Spirit for telling me what's the next step. So I, and it's almost like you let Spirit guide you. I will say that what's the next step. So I find out and it's almost like you let Spirit guide you. I will say that's like the next step up once you choose what your soul needs to do and you're on that path and you're opening up for Spirit, they will tell you, they will literally tell you what's the next step and what's the next step. And actually, to be honest, to me, it really released my fear, because you know that I don't have to control everything, and it's okay, and I'm taking care of.

That huge, that really is a huge release, because you know that someone else, they are looking out for you. They're looking out for your benefit, and you don't need to be so tired and working and trying so hard to do that. So that's why I feel like now it's flowing. I call it flowing the rainbow. This life is much, much better. Helen, thank you for sharing that and I love the use of metaphors and you had a great metaphor in the book for the way spirit guidance works. You say you compare it to the headlight of a car, and you say it's similar to wanting to drive from, let's just say, LA to San Francisco.

And when you're driving at night, you can't really see that far ahead. You only know the general direction that you want to go north. And you say spirit guidance is like that. It shows you the next step towards the headlight of the car. Maybe it shows you a few feet ahead of you, but it's not gonna show you the whole way. So because it requires you to let go of control. And I think that's the important part that I wanted to focus on is it's so hard

for so many of us to let go of that control. What is your advice for how people can take that step that is so hard for so many of us to let go of that control. What is your advice for how people can take that step that is so hard for so many of us? Wow, it's such a great question because it's so hard for me as well, John, especially for high achievers. I would say like people who want to achieve greatness, like who wants to become successful.

And if you are in this podcast, I know your audience would love to hear this. Because I'm one of you and it's so hard for me, like my early, like I would say like my early 20 some years, all the achievement, it's like I plan it out. It's I need to finish this, I finish this, and then I achieve this. Right. And if I use the same method, it's like publishing the book, right. Finding a good public house. I would list out all the potential published houses. I will maybe find a book agent. I will list it out.

I will contact them and all that. Now I'm not saying that this is not a method to do so. Yes. If it is in alignment with you can definitely do that, but I'm not saying that this is not a method to do so. Yes. If it is in alignment with you can definitely do that. But I'm just saying that this way of doing things is you are forcing, not forcing, but like you are in control or in you're always worrying whether it's going to work. Almost. So that's why it generate anxiety.

Okay. Now the other way, the surrender or let go of your control way of living is that you tell the universe this is what i want because i see this is of great benefit for everybody else around me this is something that i'm really here to create and the universe knows and the tricky part is that they just saw you, literally just saw you one step ahead and you have to take that leap of faith, that first step. And then they will tell you more about it.

They just literally like in my meditation, they said that I need to channel a book for soul evolution. And then it doesn't mean, I don't know who am I gonna publish, like I will ask my mind, we'll ask 1000 questions. Oh, is this gonna be published? Is this going to work? Is it going to make money and things like that, right?

But you have to control your mind to let this noise go. And sometimes it's helpful to write all of those noise down to put them down. When they come in your mind again and say, oh, my ego is talking like this again. But then on the same hand, on the same token, your spirit or your heart says that just take this step and you will know what is going to do the next. And they do tell me what's next. They drop the email. They let me met John, but because we're doing the same thing to get, to get on the podcast, to promote the book.

And I haven't met a lot of useful people along the way, opportunity to present a book without me even trying really hard. Of course I need to take the action to write an email, but it's not, Oh, I have my 10 list of something to do that. Right. So I will say at the beginning, if it is really hard, just do one experiment, just to take that one leap of faith, no matter what project you're working on,

and see the miracles unfold in your eyes, literally just see one thing, and that will make you believe that next time when I run this again, let me try one more time and then that that one more time becomes two that becomes three and now I will say I'm 90% there I'm still not 100% but I'm 90% there now I want to just share a recent story it happened this week like before our interview is that my spirit guy says that you need to take off

and take a vacation, go out somewhere. You cannot, because I was working like before the book launch, how focused you are. I'm going back to that. I need to do, I have 10 minutes. I need to hit this, I need to hit that, I need to do that. And then my spirit guide said, no, Helen, you need to take a break. You're going to burn out soon. And then I'm like, literally last week, I need to step out for three, for a week, almost a week. And then what happened is that I created a music track. It's my clear audience working. I created a music track to guide a track or dance movement to embody this energy. And that particular piece of music is original track, it's much more valuable.

Like from a 3D RAM, it's a sidetrack because I wasn't doing all the gazillion things you need to do to launch your book, but I'm doing something else. It doesn't make sense. At the time, they only tell me that I need to take a break. It didn't tell me that I will create a musical track. I wish.

I wish they tell you that you become, you know, this. They didn't do that. But because I took the action, they saw me the next step. They saw me the musician to collaborate with. I was so much fun. And in the end, it's going to create so much value to my work. So that's the, that's from the story side. And from a wisdom standpoint, I will summarize it as a divine feminine and divine masculine. So like the 3D, the ego is the masculine, the action, the structure. We need that. I'm not saying I'm not depreciating that. But at the same time, you need to let your intuition, need to let the spirit, need to let your soul play a role in this balance, just like the yin and the yang balance.

And when that really balance well, now you still take the action, huh? I'm not saying that you just meditate every day, everything will come to you, you know. You still take the action, but at the same time you let them guide you, and that makes it a perfect harmony. And life is so easy because you begin to feel fun, you begin to have joy, you begin to feel fulfilled instead of

pushing really hard to get to your goal. I hope this makes sense. It absolutely does. Helen, I want to go back to the earlier chapters of the book. In the book, you identify 36 aura colors, and I don't want you to go through all of them. What I wanted you to answer is can your aura color change over time and what might cause it to shift? Yes. Very good question. Actually, I didn't mention it, that the three different type of auras. And yes, even your soul aura color, a doe is the most permanent of the three.

That's where your soul is born in this body, what the color is, but it still can change and shift. That's only when you either heal a soul wound or learn a soul lesson. So how this aura color will come from is literally the six aura layers within your body. I think that it's not included the crown chakra because the crown chakra is how you connect with spirit. So we're working on from the root chakra all the way to the third eye.

So those six aura layers, two of them are your strong aura layers, meaning that you're born with them strong already. And those are the color that you naturally radiate. Now there is one that is your wound. So it can be any of the six aura layers, that's your wound. If your root chakra is your wound, maybe you have ancestral trauma, maybe you feel fearful, insecure, and physical symptoms, things like that.

Now that particular aura layer, if you are consciously choosing to work on it, to heal it, then you will change your aura color, as well as your gift archetype, to a different aura color. Because right now, then the red aura layer is no longer your wound. Now your aura, your aura color, it's also raising the red aura layer is no longer your wound. Now your aura color is also raising the red aura layer. Now for example, I am born with tangerine aura color so it's a shade of orange. My wound is actually in the blue aura layer. And yes, like Ms. Helen, you met today. Is Helen 5.0? So if you ask me whether I'm so comfortable doing public speaking

like this I would say no. I wouldn't even speak up my truth because I choose confirmation instead of confrontation. That's why I was born in China. I don't want to speak up as a woman. But because the more I practice the spiritual practice like sound bath, speaking affirmation, Louise Hay helped me a lot to do practice affirmation to really speak up what I mean instead of doing yes from the society. That's when I heal this. Now when I heal this, now I can become a teacher archetype because teacher archetype is when your blue aura layer is actually strong. So my soul aura from Tangerine now is leaning towards Lilac. So it's a shape of blue purple. So the short answer is yes. The longer answer is

why this is happening. It's because when you heal a wound or learn a particular lesson that's associated with a particular aura layer. Now the cool thing is in my book, if you're on YouTube, I actually map out every single aura layer. You literally choose your own adventure game. I love this map. It's like it tells you if you're born this, if you heal a particular aura layer, you become this. And then if you like, heal another aura layer, you become this. And then if you like heal another aura layer, you become this. And then when you have two or more to select,

it's your free will. You can choose to embody whatever you want. And at the end of the day, okay, the end goal of the book is literally enlightenment. What does it mean? It's literally to embody your light. So it means that all seven aura layers are strong, because you already heal all the wounds, learn all the lessons.

And those are all the ascended masters like Jesus Christ and Buddha. They walk the human path. They went through all the lessons and wounds. And the end, they radiate white or gold aura color. That's it. Like it's the end goal is to consciously working on all the aura color. That's it. Like it's the angle is to consciously working on all the aura layers and all of us become white or gold light.

There was no light. We are already a different color. It's because we have some are stronger compared to the others. I hope this is pretty intuitive, right? If you are strong in orange, you cannot be also strong in blue, right? But once your blue is coming,

is that yin and yang coming back again, you are whole. So that's why. So I want to tie into something that you talked about a few minutes ago. You were talking about healing, and in the book you mentioned that we're not just here to heal, but we're here to express. here to heal, but we're here to express. How does the aura color wheel help people move from healing, like you were talking about, to creative embodiment? Yes. So there are two sides of the puzzle. It's one side is to heal the weaker aura layers and the other side is

to express the stronger aura layers. Now, for example, if I'm born an artist, I'm not doing art, I'm not doing my soul any good, right? And those strong aura layers will dim, literally dimming your light. So if you're not doing what you, if you're born a visionary, you're not leading. If you're born a teacher and you're not teaching,

then your light will be. So it's like you want the stronger light within you to shine even brighter. That's when the expression comes out. So that's when I mentioned that you hear a lot of imposter syndrome. So like people, if you are born an entertainer, so give archetype, you go sing, you go add, you go, if they started to doubt whether I'm good enough, whether this and whether that and they're not doing what they're doing, what they're supposed to be doing, then their life is going to be so then that aura color is going to become muddy and gray out. So that's why it's also important to embody your personal soul gift archetype. Now there are nine

soul gift archetypes that's universal. It's funny, after I channeled this system, I'm like, why nine? And then I refer back to a lot of Asian traditional wisdoms like Enneagram, even Ginny Keys. They are all like the nine seems like a universal number. And there are nine soul gift archetypes that you can bond with.

So that's why, you know, it's great that if you take the quiz in the book or on my website, HelenCreatesBeauty.com to identify what is your soul gift when you are born and literally choose, you need to consciously choose in alignment with that particular archetype. Now, even within artist soul gift archetype, you can do so many things. It can be painting, right? It doesn't have to be painting. You can be a dancer, right? You can be a musician, right? Anything that's related to expressing your artistic gifts,

that's what you're embodying it. Now, I remember in the book, I also mentioned Jessica is one of my students using this aura color wheel system. Her wound was born in the, she has a soul wound in the yellow aura layer powered by the solar plexus. She has lack of confidence or lack of personal power. And then we work on a lot of the spiritual practice that mentioned to heal the yellow aura layer.

She was born a magenta soul aura color in the artist soul gift archetype. So once that particular aura layer is healed to a certain degree, she was bursting in, actually now she's a Broadway dancer. That's what her dream is all her life. It's because of the imposter syndrome that she's not good enough and may not be able to do it and things like that. That's when she started to dim her light. But I would say that healing and expressing, they're going hand in hand. For example, if I don't heal my wound, even though I'm an artist,

I won't be a good confidant to express or to market my work. If my throat is still like really weak, I won't be telling people about my wonderful work. And it's going in hand. It's at the same time expressing it and healing at the same time. So it's, it will, and then it can move together if you know that, if that makes sense. One of the things I have really been studying is Carl Jung's work on the shadow. And one of the things that you talk about is that we're often living in a shadow version of one of our archetypes. How does someone know if that's happening once you make it easier to have a quiz for you to identify which particular aura layer is your wound. So that's pretty much when we're born. That's the biggest thing

that we are afraid. So if it basically what trigger your biggest fear, let me ask you this question. That's typically can tell me what is your biggest shadow that's overcasting your light. And if you can work on that. So biggest shadow that's overcasting your light. And if you can work on that, so basically if that particular aura layer is like anything that hits to that point, if it's the throw, it's about probably speaking, speaking up your own truth and confirmity, like you choose confirmity over confrontation and all of these, then you know that okay this is my shadow that I need to work on really hard this lifetime. And for some people, it's relationships, especially if it is sacral chakra related to the orange or a layer, it's like just one harmonious relationships and they were sometimes stuck in abusive relationships just because of that, you know,

that the mosquito audit, I love that, to audit out all that negative soul contracts. But people just stuck there in cycles of incarnation to just to clear out all of those negative soul contracts. So like how to identify that particular shadow, I would say ask yourself, what's your biggest fear? This is my passion. If this is my mission, this lifetime, what's the biggest thing that you think is preventing you to do that? Okay. And from an energetic standpoint, once you take the course, you identify your soul wound aura layer.

What does this aura layer or what does this chakra, if this particular energy is related to, for example, I mentioned Jessica's wound was in the yellow or a layer of power, but a solo plus a chakra. That's all about self-esteem, self-acceptance. Can you even accept that, right? Like you want, you know that your shadow is this. Can you accept it? Self-confidence and all of this.

And that's how you identify what your shadow point is. And another tip is that when you are early in your childhood, what is the recurring physical symptoms that you have all the time? I have nose bleeding and strapped throat when I was a kid pretty much all the time. And this is the physical location around the throat chakra. Now if you have stomach issues, is it lower stomach or upper stomach? If you have liver issue, pancreas issues,

that's like the yellow oral layer. So each oral layer is coincide with a different part of your body. For example, my daughter always have ankle issues. I know that's red oral layer, that's the foundation, right? So if you can, that's another tip, you layer it with your physical body where you always have recurring issues.

That's the part that you need to heal. And that's whatever that aura layer is associated with that body part, that also tells me energetically it's blocking you from shining your light. We've discussed a lot today and we've just walked through discovering your soul or color, we've gone through the different archetypes. So someone goes through the book

and discovers those things for themselves. How do they begin to use this information in real life as a compass? I make it really practical because I like wisdom and at the same time I like practicality. So in the book I think it's on chapter two or chapter three there was a list of all possible practices. It's in chapter two actually now I'm looking at it. You can self-diagn diagnose and do self practice. I call it your go to all our layer health guide.

So you literally can self diagnose first, whether it's a physical, emotional, mental or spiritual symptom that you're experiencing. So you know what's going out of balance. And then there is a list of all holistic energy medicine I mentioned that they are including a Vega like diet wise, what should you eat, food is medicine to help, especially if your aura layer have physical symptoms, that's really important.

And then there was crystals, because I'm also a crystal healer, so I know that really help with your energy standpoint. Yoga poses, herbs and flowers like tea, that herbal tea that you can intake. And then also feng shui, like feng shui directions, like where you eat naturally you inhale that particular chi in your aura. Also the suffigial frequency music. So you can listen to particular suffigial frequency. I recommend you to just play that music while you work on your computers as a background music. If that particular aura layer is out of balance,

just play that all day long. And then of course, I mentioned also archangels and spirit guides. You can call out those angels and spirit guides. Hey, I am working on this particular, now that's more spiritual practice. I am working on this particular, now that's more spiritual practice. I'm working on this right now. And I know from Helen's book

that you're the angel helping with this, right? Talk to them just like that. And then give me a sign, like showing me that you're working with me to help me heal this particular aura later. Now I list out from literally from food, like physical body, to energy energy body to spiritual body like all the possible practices that you can do to help heal that particular aura layer. Even that aura layer is

strong you might still be out of balance that you might need to have that and everybody resonate with different things. Some people really like the suffiscial frequency like the and binomial beats. Some people really like to practice yoga. Some people like the food like they take that particular food. Some people just like to talk to angels and spirit guides. That's fine. Everyone has a different thing, but at least it there. I like the toolbox approach. Just like in your medicine cabinet, right? You're not going to take every possible from had they peel to band-aid, right, at the same time. But you have it there. You have

the book, you have it there. So when next time you're so familiar with yourself, self-awareness and intro-respection is so important. Just like you mentioned in your book, Passion Strike, right? That's such an important thing. you're aware oh I have this habit but this time is in the front hole instead of the back okay so this might be related to the third eye right to the third eye or a layer so let me see what are the tools that's possible to heal this particular thing like things like that once you're aware where your energy is leaking like which aura layer you need help with, then you know what tool,

what's the tool to the medicine cabinet. Okay, I want this, I want that. So that's my toolbox approach to answer that question. And finally, Helen, since you brought up passion struck and you've read the book, how do you define a life that's passion struck? It's very similar to what you had written read the book. How do you define a life that's passion struck? It's very similar to what you had written in the book. It's literally to choose, to consciously or

intentionally choose what's in alignment with your soul's purpose. We can always choose the comfortable. We can always choose the good enough. We can always choose, you know, what's familiar But to live a passion strike life, that's like really tapping to your untapped potential You need to choose What's in alignment with your passion with your mission and let spirit guide you? surrender and Be okay with uncertainty. Be okay that you don't know the full picture

of what the end goal is, but this is the next step I have to take towards the mission. And then you will see, when you get to that mountain top, you will understand, wow, this is what it's all about. It's just like you climbing up the mountain, you don't see the top yet. You see the step in front of you

or maybe a few foot ahead, right? But this is the guidance for you to keep choosing. When there is a stopping point, yes, you can take a break. Don't worry. Sometimes you can take a break. You can take a detour. But at the end of the day, consciously choose what is really resonate with your soul. Thank you for sharing that. And

where's the best place for a listener to go to learn more about you? I offer everything. It's on my website homepage, HelenCreatesBeauty.com. See my dama is to create. So that's why it's HelenCreatesBeauty.com. See, my dharma is to create. So that's why it's HelenCreatesBeauty.com. Yep. Helen, it was such an honor to have you today and congratulations on your fantastic new book, The Aura Color Wheel, What Your Soul's Aura Reveals about Your Inner Gifts, Wounds, and Lessons.

I highly encourage the audience to pick up a copy and we'll have it in the show notes for them to consume it. Thank you so much for being here. Thank you, John, for having me. And that's a wrap on the soulful, illuminating conversation with Helen Yee Plin. What she reminds us is this, your purpose isn't something you chase, it's something you remember. And often it's hiding in the energy you carry, the patterns you repeat, the gifts you've

always had but never fully claimed. If Helen's message resonated with you, I highly encourage you to take her free quiz at hellencreatesbeauty.com and check out her new book, The Aura Color Wheel. We'll have links in the show notes at passionstruck.com. Whether you see yourself in the healer, the visionary, or the warrior archetype, her framework offers a powerful mirror for self-understanding and soul alignment. And if you're part of a team, school, or organization looking to foster emotional intelligence, inner leadership, and purpose-driven culture, I'd love to partner with you.

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Joining that gym, writing that book, going on that podcast, doing that interview, applying for that job, talking to that person you're attracted to. These are all things that potentially have unlimited upside that you won't even see yet, but it's the fear that's stopping you. And if that's the case, anchor a time in the past when you felt that fear and you did it anyways, and use that going forward to deal

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