Helen Ye Plehn on Why Your Soul Knows the Best Way

In this episode of Passion Struck, visionary spiritual psychologist and author Helen Ye Plehn joins John R. Miles to reveal how your soul’s own wisdom holds the map to your most authentic life. Drawing on insights from her new Hay House release, The Aura Color Wheel: What Your Soul’s Aura Reveals About Your Inner Gifts, Wounds, and Lessons, Helen shows us that the colors dancing around our energy field are far more than pretty light—they’re living markers of our deepest strengths, unhealed hurts, and the lessons our souls brought into this lifetime.

From her own journey out of academia and into daily meditation, to a spontaneous Kundalini awakening that opened her third eye, Helen’s story is proof that when we learn to trust and listen to our inner guidance, we begin to move with confidence, clarity, and purpose.

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Unlock Your Inner Compass: Top Takeaways from Helen Ye Plehn’s Journey

In this conversation, John R. Miles and Helen Ye Plehn dive deep into the practices and insights that helped Helen move from academic burnout to spiritual flourishing. Listeners will journey alongside her through the pivotal moments that reshaped her life—from the first tears shed in group meditation to a spontaneous Kundalini awakening that cracked her third eye wide open. Helen unpacks the science and soul behind auras, explaining how to distinguish between mood, personality, and soul layers.

She also walks us through practical rituals—yoga, crystals, Feng Shui, affirmations, and more—that serve as a toolbox for healing wounds and amplifying innate gifts. Along the way, Helen emphasizes the power of inviting spirit guides into our everyday, the art of balancing control with surrender, and what it really means to live a life aligned with your deepest purpose.

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

• Daily Practice: How just 20 minutes of meditation transformed chronic anxiety and panic into sustained peace.
• Aura Decoded: The three distinct layers of aura energy—and how your soul’s layer reveals your true gifts, lessons, and unhealed wounds.
• Guided by Spirit: Why you must give permission to your spirit team, and the unmistakable signs they’ll send when you do.
• Control vs. Surrender: The exact metaphor of “headlights on a dark road,” showing us why letting go is the ultimate strategy for moving forward.
• Heal & Express: Why inner wounds and creative expression go hand in hand—and how neglecting one dims your soul’s light.
• Everyday Tools: A holistic “medicine cabinet” of foods, crystals, yoga poses, music frequencies, and affirmations to address each aura layer.

WHY IS THIS EPISODE A MUST-LISTEN?

Whether you’re wrestling with burnout, craving deeper purpose, or simply curious about the unseen forces that shape your life, this episode offers both soul-stirring stories and concrete steps you can take today. Helen’s journey exemplifies how ordinary practices—when paired with wholehearted surrender—can unlock extraordinary transformation. Tune in to discover how to navigate your own inner landscape with clarity, confidence, and compassion.

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Harnessing the Aura Color Wheel for Everyday Transformation

On the show, Helen Ye Plehn broke down exactly how the Aura Color Wheel works—and more importantly, how you can put it to use today. In her Hay House book The Aura Color Wheel: What Your Soul’s Aura Reveals About Your Inner Gifts, Wounds, and Lessons, she lays out a simple yet powerful system for reading and shifting your energetic fingerprint. Here’s a closer look at what she shared and how you can apply it in real life.

What Is the Aura Color Wheel?

Helen explained that our energy field isn’t one flat color but a multilayered “wheel” of 36 possible Soul Aura colors—each corresponding to a unique combination of gifts, wounds, and evolutionary lessons. Those colors map back to six primary aura layers (from Root up through Third Eye), two of which are your natural strengths and one of which is your current soul wound. Over time, as you heal or learn, your dominant color can shift—literally reflecting your inner growth.

Practical Toolbox: Using Your Personal “Medicine Cabinet”

During the interview, Helen described her go‑to “aura layer health guide”—a holistic toolkit you build for yourself. Once you identify which layer feels out of balance (through the quiz in her book or by tuning into symptoms), you can reach for the exact remedy you need:

• Food & Nutrition: Certain whole foods and herbs help ground your Root or energize your Solar Plexus layer.
• Crystal Allies: Keep a color‑coded crystal on your desk or in your pocket to stabilize an overactive or wounded chakra.
• Movement & Breath: Specific yoga poses—like Heart‑opening backbends or Root‑grounding squats—recalibrate your flow.
• Sound & Frequency: Play the recommended Solfège tones or guided meditations tied to each aura layer while you work or rest.
• Feng Shui & Environment: Helen’s feng shui hacks (even as simple as the direction you face when you eat) tune the energy that’s feeding your aura.
• Spirit Guidance: A short invocation—“Show me a sign, Guardian Angel”—can open you to the subtle nudges of your spirit team.

Tracking Your Color Shifts

One of the coolest takeaways from our conversation was Helen’s “choose‑your‑adventure” color map (featured in Chapter 12). As you practice healing and step into new expressions of your gifts, you can literally watch your aura wheel evolve. That might look like journaling your daily color quiz results, tracking how your emotional and physical symptoms change, or celebrating when you move from a “wound color” into a “gift color.”

Bringing It All Together

By treating the Aura Color Wheel as both a mirror and a map, you gain:

1. Self‑Awareness: You learn exactly where you’re stuck—mental, emotional, physical, or spiritual.
2. Precision Healing: You stop guessing which practice will help and start using targeted tools.
3. Empowered Expression: As your wounds heal, your natural strengths grow louder, and you feel more confident sharing your gifts.

Helen’s practical approach makes the Aura Color Wheel feel less like mysticism and more like personalized self‑care. Tune into this segment and you’ll walk away with a straightforward recipe for turning your next bout of burnout or creative block into a clear call to action.

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About Today’s Guest, Helen Ye Plehn

Helen Ye Plehn is an intuitive spiritual psychologist, Zen Executive Coach, and bestselling Hay House author of The Aura Color Wheel: What Your Soul’s Aura Reveals About Your Inner Gifts, Wounds, and Lessons. A third‑generation Feng Shui master and certified crystal healer, she blends ancient Vedic and Western astrological insights with chakra work, meditation, and channeling to help clients decode their unique soul blueprint.

After a decade of daily meditation and a spontaneous Kundalini awakening, Helen channeled the 36‑color Aura Color Wheel system alongside her spirit team to illuminate how our aura reflects past‑life imprints, core strengths, and growth lessons. An acrylic painter and former interior architect, her work has appeared in Laguna Art Gallery, Huntington Beach Art Center, and top media outlets including MSN.com and LA Weekly.

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