Shownotes
In this episode of Soul Sparks, hosted by Nazish, we explore a deeply personal and spiritual approach to discovering purpose through energy, color, and inner awareness.
This conversation is for anyone feeling lost, disconnected, or searching for meaning. Helen shares how tuning into your inner world—through stillness, reflection, and self-honesty—can help you reconnect with your natural gifts. It’s not about finding purpose overnight, but embodying it step by step, with compassion and clarity.
About the Guest:
Helen Ye Plehn is the founder of Helen Creates Beauty and author of The Aura Color Wheel. She is a Feng Shui master, intuitive planner, and meditation guide focused on helping people align with their life purpose.
Episode Chapters:
00:00 Introduction to Soul Sparks
02:10 Childhood connection with color and energy
07:45 Awakening and seeing aura energy
13:20 What “purpose” really means
18:40 Why purpose is already within you
25:15 Healing patterns and emotional loops
31:50 Navigating difficult seasons
38:20 Practices to reconnect with your soul
Key Takeaways:
- Purpose is something you embody, not chase
- Self-awareness begins with honest reflection
- Healing emotional patterns shifts external experiences
- Life moves in seasons—growth includes discomfort
- Stillness and meditation deepen inner clarity
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Website: https://helencreatesbeauty.com
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00:00:08 Nazish: Hello beautiful souls. Welcome to Soul Sparks, a part of Healthy Mind by Avid Network. I am your host, Nasir, and this is a little corner of the world where we pause, breathe, and invite one small spark of truth to light something inside us. My guest today is absolutely wonderful, Helen Flynn. She is the founder of Helen Creates Beauty and the award winning author of The Color Wheel, published by the hay House. She is the creator of the Oracle Wheel System and a soul discovery tool that helps people identify their life's purpose through the soul or a color. Helen is also an intuitive planner and angel challenger and a certified Crystal healer. A third generation Feng Shui master and yes, a flamenco dancer. Her mission is to help one million souls find and live their purpose with joy. That's beautiful. And that's what we are going to explore today. So I welcome you to the show, Helen.
00:01:14 Helen Ye Plehn: Thank you for having me today.
00:01:17 Nazish: Wonderful. Before we go ahead, listeners, some statements reflect personal belief and experiences and are presented as individual views, not medical advice. Listeners should consult professionals for medical conditions.
00:01:31 Nazish: So, Helen, uh, before I want to ask you about aura color wheel itself, like right to the point I want to ask you, like color has been clearly a threat through your whole life painting feng shui or our work. So when you first begin, when you first begin to see color as energy and not just something beautiful, what changed for you in that moment?
00:02:01 Helen Ye Plehn: Yeah, it's, I think I remember very early on in my childhood, my my father is a Chinese traditional painter. And we would go to the mountains when he does sketch. And I will spend time, you know, in the streams, swimming in the river, talking to the trees. And that's when I already can glimpse the color as energy. So it's like around nature when I receive, you know, those light and shadow that's changing colors. And I can feel and sense that, you know, it's, it's a bowl of energy rather than it's just color. And that's basically the light energy or the light language, if you will say that, but at the time I didn't know too much of it. But I feel really curious, really drawn to it. So, um, I read a lot of books about it. I learned about it. Um, and, you know, that was like kind of my first take, you know, during my childhood that I had that, um, you know, feeling. But then of course you went back to the society, you go to school, you know, all the tests and all that, you forgot about it. So what also came back to me is when I, you know, uh, begin to paint again, um, that's during my master's degree in interior design and architecture. It's when I begin to use color again. And I like to use natural pigment. So I'm also a certified crystal healer. So I like to use actually crystals and rocks to, uh, grind them in and make pigment out of it to do painting. So that's when I feel like when you work with nature, um, you sense the energy. You literally like every pigment or every paint has its own personality. Um, and then I work with them very intimately, you know, through, um, also feng shui. Uh, sometimes I can even read the energy of the room, um, you know, through light and color. Same thing with painting and working with color on this level. Like, um, it really, uh, kind of like broaden my spectrum of what it is rather than just the color, the physical form, but also as an energy form or sentient being. Um, but what really, really shift everything is in twenty eighteen, after my seven years of daily meditation, I had a spontaneous Kundalini awakening. That's when my third eye begins wide open and I see aura or the energy, the color energy field around all living beings, meaning plants, animals, and also, of course, humans. And that's when I understand that, okay, that's the aura. That's what I've been seeing all the time since I was a child, but I wasn't having a language for it at the time. Um, but after my third eye open, I see color spectrums as well as spirit guides in different forms. That's kind of my personal journey of, of color.
00:05:24 Nazish: And that is such a beautiful journey, you know? It is so beautiful when what you are meant to do in life comes to you at the end. It is like all of it is planned for you. You began with as a kid and and you had an awakening,
00:05:39 Helen Ye Plehn: Yeah. It took me some sidetrack, you know, like in the in the middle part of it, you know, it's like, okay, you go back to school, just do math literature and get A's in all the, all the grades, right? And then you kind of forget about that, that wonder, that sense of curiosity, the or, you know, and we are part of nature when we are having this close relationship or intimate relationship with nature, our soul resonates like we remember us. And that's what I think really brought me back. So right now, even like till this day, I do yoga and meditation every morning in a park before I begin my day.
00:06:23 Nazish: I know, and that is the beauty of it. Like eventually life come back to the point, like come back to the the track and you find your purpose. Yeah. And once you got your purpose, you are, you're helping everybody else finding their purpose. And that is the real beauty of it.
00:06:41 Helen Ye Plehn: That's exactly right. Now it's my purpose. Like helping others to find their purpose is my purpose. Now, it took me a while to get here. And once I'm leaving this, when you're fully in alignment with what your soul is designed to do, uh, life actually flows to me. It's real freedom and liberation because you don't trace, you don't like, uh, work, hustle, or grind anymore. It's more about you attracting the right opportunities, synchronicities, and the right people in your life rather than you need to trace. So like, for example, even this book contract, uh, of the oracle will with a house, a lot of people ask me, okay, such a good publisher, how do you get it? You know, the traditional way in the society is like you find a book agent, you know, you list ten different publishers, and then you email everybody and it's like, you almost like need to grind your way in it. But for me, it's because this is so in alignment with what I'm here to do after I channel the system, I. Literally just like meditate, talk to my spirit guides and, you know, ask them to guide me how it can be shared with the world to help more people. And literally, I just received an email in my inbox from hay House. Hey, by the way, if you want to publish with us, we have a writers community that you can join and like, I never sign up for the email newsletter, although I have a lot of books from them, from their authors, but I never sign up the email newsletter. So I know that there is a sign. It's almost like a blatant sign that universe is sending me an opportunity. So that's what, like right now, I literally expect miracles because like, because once you're living this alignment with your soul's design, with your, with your soul's purpose, like miracles is actually the norm. So that's the beauty of it. So it's like you're not struggling. You're not like trying to get your way out there. So it's less of an ego driven, but more about surrender to the divine plan. And it's always abundant and plenty, um, you know, out there. So that's the, that's the huge difference from where, you know, that the culture or the society that teach us what is success and how you can be that. And rather than, you know, but I don't mean that you don't need to do anything you need, you still need to put in your hard work. You still need to, you know, write a book. Right? But just the, the process of it is more about flow and least resistance. And you're just going with it rather than, you know, you push really hard.
00:09:32 Nazish: Absolutely. I mean, I couldn't agree more with you. And that is really beautiful. And, you know, I want to ask you like when people hear about soul's purpose, like they think their soul's purpose is one big dramatic thing, a calling they have to find or else they are wasting their life. But like in your experience, working with so many souls, is that how purpose actually works?
00:09:56 Helen Ye Plehn: No, actually, it's already within you. You do not find your soul's purpose. It's not something that is outside of you that you need to find out what it is and you get it. Okay? It's a process of embodiment. So it's a, it's a process of like, you know, what you truly value about like currently, you know, you might list out like the three top three. For me, it's always joy, wisdom and beauty. It's been staying for a little bit, but as you're so evolved, those, you know, big one, you might change. And then I call this the seven steps of embodying your, your soul's purpose and you are allowed to refine it. Okay. It's not like one and done. It's almost like a trial and error process until you get there. And once you arrive, you kind of know. And of course, um, if you have the Oracle real system, it's the fastest way to do it is like take the twenty question quiz on my website, home page headline creates beauty dot com. It's completely free. After you take the quiz, you will understand what is your soul gift archetype. For example, I was born with the artist soul gift archetype, but I wasn't really doing what artist is supposed to do. Uh, you know, I went straight to PhD program. That's why I wasn't happy and fulfilled. Now, if I know that I was born an artist, I will bust that imposter syndrome to begin with my art practice to begin with. Right? So that's like the faster, faster way to understand what's your soul's blueprint or what your, what you are gifted is right to share with the world. And, um, so this process as, as I mentioned, the seven steps to really embody your process, your, your soul's purpose. It's about, you know, really be honest, be brutally honest of what you really care about. Like, you know, some key words, some, some values that you really stick by. And then you can list out all the, um, you know, activities or things that you enjoy that's going to get you in alignment with those qualities. For example, if, uh, you know, um, beauty is one of my core values, you know, like painting, you know, creating intuitive sign dancing flamingo. That's also joy, right? So you, you can list out the ideas or wisdom. I always like to study all kinds of, um, you know, self-discovery tools like human design, genius, numerology, Enneagram, we dig and, uh, Western astrology, all of that. Like, like I got certified in all of them because I just love them. So like, what do you mean by each of them? And then you try it out. You need to do more of that, even just one action, you know, at a time. That's, that's going to get you closer to there, right? And then you refine it in the process. Okay, so I try this. It doesn't really in alignment with what this says about, right? So that's the, the process. But from a like, kind of like, I want to zoom out a little bit from a higher perspective, what does it mean by soul's purpose? Your soul is just a bowl of light. It's light energy. You know, that's that in your heart chakra. That's the, that's the energy that never dies, never wants it. Just choose a different body to incarnate. And that particular light bulb is made of the seven layers of, of light, right? The rainbow spectrum, uh, powered by the chakras or the energy centers along your spine. When every single layer is balanced and how you are. Basically, you're white because when seven layers of light oil together, it becomes white light. However, if you are having some kind of wounding or some kind of lessons that you need to incorporate or need to heal this lifetime, one of the aura layers might be a little bit dimmer. That's why your soul soul's different color. For example, like my soul aura color is tangerine. So it's more of the orange spectrum because I'm a creative artist archetype. However, that means my blue. So like blue aura layer or throat chakra is it's my wounding because it's like, you know, if you have more of this spectrum, you have less of that. So then I'm aware that I need to work on that for me to, you know, almost like soul upgrade, you know, to be a better version of myself. And of course, I've been working on it a lot. Otherwise I wouldn't become, you know, a public speaker and now on podcast to express my truth. Right. So that's a process. But once, um, you know, so, so, so like sole purpose, right? That that's the two words. Sole is the bowl of light. And you need to work on every single aura layer to become the white light and then purpose, like collectively speaking, all we are here to do. If you are in human form, we are here to evolve. That's it. Purpose means evolution. So that's why it's changing. You know, it's, it's a process of growth. So evolution, what does it mean? It means three things to use your soul gift to be of service. So you are fulfilled and abundant and to heal your soul wounds and to learn your soul lessons. And that's it. So those are the three things that I discussed in the Aura Color Wheel book. And that framework is going to help you understand what are your gifts, what are your wounds and what are your lessons. So that way you can put you in the driver's seat of your own destiny rather than the victimhood of okay, so you know this, this happened again. But once you understand everything is energy just manifested in physical forms, you will know that which aura layer or which light body is out of balance. And you can use some holistic practices to bring yourself back into balance. And that's the beauty of it. So if you ask me, what is soul purpose? Is it like big and out there? I need to search for it. It's not like that. It's every day embodiment and the framework of, you know, soul and evolution. It's going to help you, you know, understand a little bit more about yourself.
00:16:22 Nazish: I mean, at the end of the day, that is what matters when you see your real growth and know more about yourself. And when you know that what you when you feel peace in what you are doing. Exactly.
00:16:33 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:16:35 Nazish: Like you said that you.
00:16:36 Speaker 3: Were doing different.
00:16:38 Helen Ye Plehn: Yeah. Just like what you said. Like you know what you're doing. Put yourself in the driver's seat. Now you know that even that's a woman, even, you know, maybe something unfortunate happened to me, but because I know because like, for example, if you have a heart chakra issue or you have a sacral chakra issue, like in a trial, wounding or, uh, or hard, like hard to receive, like that's a typical combination. Those souls tend to have abusive relationships and they will keep coming back with the same, they were attracting the same type of partner again and again and again. And I'm like, yeah, because you know what? You are in a loop. You are in a hamster wheel of that type of energy that's not healed. Then if you work on, uh, work on healing your inner child, work on learning how to receive rather than give, give, give over giving or people pleasing. And by the way, your situation is going to change. So we work on ourself From an energetic level, and the outside world is going to mirror that back to us. And that's exactly like so that way you understand, okay, this is not just like, uh, you know, like I'm a victim. I, I am, you know, like how poor me, you know, how come I always get this type of man, for example, right? So then you, you understand now I'm, I'm just healing this. And once I heal this, I will get better on the other side. Right? So that's exactly what about, you know, self knowingness?
00:18:06 Nazish: Yes, absolutely. You have said it so clearly. And I think that a lot of people feel this what you are talking about, but like listening to these things, it gives you a different sense of security. And you know that you are not the only one into this. So thank you so much for putting these feelings into words for all of us today.
00:18:27 Helen Ye Plehn: Well, thank you for letting me know. Yeah. This is the this is the beauty of this work. Um, and as I Are saying on the first page of my book literally said that, you know, knowing others is wise, knowing yourself is enlightenment. So why is it enlightenment? Even in the ancient sages said it because in in the soul level, we are light. We are here to embody our light until our lives are all whole and balanced and becoming mostly white. That means, like all seven layers of energy centers, we are clear, clean and balanced. And that's a very beautiful, peaceful state. So the more you meditate, the more you can experience that sweetness.
00:19:12 Nazish: I couldn't agree more with you. So, you know, one thing that I know is that soul path isn't always smooth. Like there will be seasons where purpose will feel bright and clear and there will be season where it it will go quiet. So how do you stay connected to your own soul colors in harder seasons?
00:19:31 Helen Ye Plehn: Yeah, it's it's such a beautiful question because it's not like once you know, it's all smooth and sweet. Life is just, you know, bright. I wish, right? But once you know, it just puts you in a better position of understanding and be compassionate about yourself. We all have our own season, just like nature. As I mentioned at the beginning, that we are part of nature. Don't separate ourselves. So nature has seasons. It has spring, summer, autumn and, uh, and winter. It's not always summer all the time. No, not always. Uh, some flower all the time. We also need winter seasons. And that's sometimes that's the hardship that we, you know, we go through. And if we can, as I mentioned, like zoom out the perspective, like on the, you know, if you can get out of your perspective really, uh, high up, you know, in the mountain like an eagle looking down, you can think of it this way like, okay, right now I'm, uh, going through a hard period or the winter season of my life. This is when I'm deep in my dark night of the soul. And I'm healing. You know, my ancestral past life or karmic patterns. But like after ten years, you know, five to ten years from now, will that particular thing still matter? Like, is it, is it like if I, you know, I, if I go through this, if I work through this process, you know, like ten years down the road, like, do I still think that I'm so, you know, unfortunate or whatever, or it's just an episode for me to grow, right? You need to kind of zoom out a little bit to think of it when you're in the middle of it, you kind of have this tunnel vision of life is so hard, you know, why is it like this and all of that? But as a long spectrum, like, to me, you know, I never fear death because I know that you just hit the reset button and go in into that incarnation cycle again. So it's like, if it's literally life is internal, you know, like from that really long stretch of time. This is like just a small episode of what you need to go through. Like for me, I had a really personal hard time to healing my ancestral trauma with my relationship with my mom. And by the way, she still live with us till this day. So it takes a, it takes me about like consciously working on it three years. And that three years was torture to me. But at the time, what really, um, you know, helped me to hold on. Like I know that I need to work on my red aura layer. That's ancestral trauma, right? I am aware of it, but it doesn't make it super easy, you know? And I received my spirit team's message saying that I need to forgive her. And that doesn't make it easy. I literally say f you at the beginning because it's really hard, right? Um, then I, I need to soften. Basically, I need to keep soften my heart. And if you become less critical of yourself, and if you become more compassionate about yourself, you actually have a more compassionate viewpoint for everybody else around you. You understand that, you know, hurt people, hurt people. They are hurting you because they got hurt to begin with. It's not like they intentionally want to hurt you, right? So you can see the situation a little bit better. So I would say that, you know, always try to shift out your perspective, you know, zoom out as, as much as possible, you know, and understand that you are not alone. You're absolutely not alone on this because we all experience the same thing, just in different forms.
00:23:13 Speaker 3: Absolutely.
00:23:14 Nazish: That is so true. And you know, that is so beautiful, Helen. That so never leaves us. We just forget to listen sometimes. And thank you. Like I want to hold that to my heart today.
00:23:28 Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:23:29 Helen Ye Plehn: That's right. So yeah, our souls always talking to us. We just have to be quiet enough to listen to it. That's why meditation is not just a form of sitting there. It's also about connecting to your higher self, connecting to your soul and your spirit guides. You will receive the guidance and wisdom you know from your higher self, your soul. And they are always whispering. But if you have a, you know, day to day, like the to do list is never ends and every single minute is taking, taking granted for and as well as scrolling your cell phones all the time, then then you don't get time to listen to it. Right? So like, um, you know, just staying quiet, you know, sometimes reflective, you know, doing some journaling, create some space and time to talk to yourself and talk to your soul. I call it a date with your soul or a date with your spirit team. So that would be really, really useful to, to gain that soul wisdom.
00:24:36 Speaker 3: Absolutely.
00:24:37 Nazish: Thank you so much for sharing that with us. So before we wrap, I want to ask you if anyone listening who wants to discover their own soul or a color and explore your book, your beautiful work, where is the best place for them to find you and connect with you?
00:24:53 Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:24:53 Helen Ye Plehn: So everything I offer is on my website, Helen creative dot com. Now, since I mentioned about, you know, creating time and sacred space to connect with your soul is such an important thing. I do have a monthly membership called the Aura Evolution Sanctuary, and that particular membership will gather monthly and you will receive, you know, guided meditations, journaling prompts, and you have a community of souls who are evolving or working on your soul connections. At the same time, you know that I answer your questions inside the group. And right now, the membership, the first month is free, so you can experience the magic of an online community, that we can grow our soul together. And also, if you're just beginning to explore the work, I mentioned the free course on my website that you can take to get a reading to understand your soul color, your soul gift archetype. And if you get a copy of the Aura Coloring book, the book is available for sale anywhere on the internet that you can find books or in the bookstores as well internationally. And I give you three gifts to help you really embody this work, not just reading about it, but practice it so you are able to join the Aura Color Wheel Facebook Private Facebook group where I host monthly Q&A and live spirit message readings. So I will tune into the quantum field and tell you who are your spirit guides and what messages they have for you for your soul's growth. And you're also able to receive the, uh, feng shui birth element and number reading. In that particular reading, you understand your lucky directions for wealth, health, spiritual growth, and love. So that way you can have a feng shui home. You know, it's very similar to Vastu. If you are in India. India. So that's, that's the, you know, energetic space for you to exchange your energy between your aura and your, um, living environment. And lastly, uh, as I mentioned, meditation is such a key to personal growth and spiritual growth. I will give you like fifty dollars off a rainbow aura meditation bundle. And in that bundle, it's forty nine guided meditations, uh, original composed by a Colombian musician. Solfeggio frequency music that's designed to raise your vibrational frequency for every single aura layer. So seven meditations for seven aura layers. It's one hell of a package for you to just get a copy of the book. is less than twenty dollars of US dollar investment, so that way you can experience the magic of the aura color wheel.
00:27:42 Speaker 3: Absolutely.
00:27:42 Nazish: Thank you so much for sharing those beautiful gifts with my audience, and I will make sure to include all these details into the show notes. There are a lot of people can reach out to you. Thank you so much, Helen, for this wonderful conversation, for your color, for your wisdom, and for reminding us that all souls are always speaking, always guiding, and always lit in within us.
00:28:05 Helen Ye Plehn: Thank you so much.
00:28:07 Nazish: And to you, the soul listening. Maybe tonight you don't have to figure everything out. Maybe you just have to notice which color you are drawn to this evening, which feeling, which quietness. And that is your soul gently waving. Hello, this is Nazish for soul sparks part of Healthy Mind by Awake Network. Stay bright, stay curious. And we will light another spark together soon.
