Have you ever asked, “Who am I?”, “Why am I here?”, and “How can I be happy?” These questions are deeply connected to your soul’s purpose.
At the height of my academic success, engaged, close to completing my PhD, and publishing research, I found myself in the emergency room with anxiety and depression. From the outside, everything looked perfect. Inside, I felt profoundly misaligned. That was the moment I began asking those three soul searching questions in earnest.
A therapist once described me as a “free spirit”, and that single comment jolted me awake. I had ignored my creative dreams for years in pursuit of security and external expectations. What felt like a breakdown became a breakthrough. It marked the beginning of a decade long spiritual journey to rediscover my soul gifts.
I left academia and retrained as a licensed Feng Shui interior designer, a certified crystal healer, and an intuitive painter. Through working closely with colour and energy, and after seven years of daily meditation, I experienced a spontaneous Kundalini awakening. I felt a powerful surge of energy rise from the base of my spine to the crown of my head. I began to see visions through my third eye chakra, the energy centre located in the middle of the forehead. I perceived auras around living beings, spirits in different forms, and glimpses of past and future versions of myself in holographic imagery.
This journey led me to channel and publish The Aura Colour Wheel with Hay House Publishing. It is a dynamic soul discovery system designed to help others rediscover the joy and purpose I had once lost. The system addresses those three foundational questions and offers insight into your soul’s purpose.
Who are we?
We are souls walking a human path. Our souls are composed of light energy, the three dimensional electromagnetic field that surrounds the body. Your aura colour reflects the light energy you radiate. Everything on Earth emits energy, and energy carries information through vibration. Your Soul Aura Colour contains information about your soul’s purpose.
Each person’s energy vibrates at different frequencies and amplitudes, which correspond to specific colour wavelengths known as aura colours. The aura has multiple layers, much like an onion. Each layer is powered by chakras, or energy centres, described in Indian wisdom traditions as wheels of energy aligned along the spine.
Why are we here?
We incarnate on Earth to evolve. This includes offering our soul gifts, healing unresolved wounds, and learning lessons carried from past lives.
How can we be happy?
Happiness emerges when we consciously align our intentions and actions with our soul’s evolutionary path. This means sharing our gifts in service, committing to healing, and learning from our wounds and lessons.
What is the Aura Colour Wheel system?
The Aura Colour Wheel is a dynamic soul discovery and evolution blueprint that helps you understand your unique energetic design, including your Soul Aura Colour and your evolving Soul Gift Archetypes. You can take a free 20 question quiz to discover your Soul Aura Colour and what it reveals about your gifts, wounds, and lessons.
You may now be wondering, “How do I know if I am aligned with my purpose?” Based on my personal experience working with hundreds of students, here are three signs.
3 Signs you are on purpose
- You feel aligned, fulfilled, and joyful even when challenges arise. Life begins to flow, synchronicities increase, and manifestations occur with greater ease. You feel energised when sharing your natural gifts.
- You experience growth through healing and lessons, not only through achievements. You can recognise recurring negative patterns and consciously work through them. You are not afraid of shadow work or self inquiry. You welcome it as part of your evolution.
- Your decisions are guided by your inner wisdom rather than external expectations. You trust your intuition and remain open to spiritual guidance. Fear, people pleasing, and societal pressure no longer drive your choices. Instead, you follow an inner compass.
You might also ask, “What if I feel misaligned? How can I remember who I truly am?” Here are some of my favourite ways.
3 Ways to remember who you are
- Learn the energetic blueprint of your soul by using The Aura Colour Wheel quiz and system. Discover your colour and archetype.
- Meditate and connect with your Spirit Team. Meditation provides direct access to the quantum field and to your soul’s higher guidance. Everyone has spirit guides supporting their evolutionary journey. Regular connection through meditation, journalling, and energy practices helps you embody your truth.
- Heal and strengthen your aura layers through self study and awareness. Each chakra and aura layer reflects a different aspect of your soul’s journey. Balancing these layers with practices such as crystal healing, sound therapy, Ayurveda, and conscious living in harmony with nature restores your light and amplifies your soul’s signal.
You do not find your soul’s purpose. It remembers you the moment you align with who you truly are. Every step towards authenticity, creativity, healing, or service is a step towards soul remembrance. When you live from your essence, you do not chase purpose. You radiate it.
Helen Ye Plehn is the founder of Helen Creates Beauty and the author of The Aura Colour Wheel, a system for discovering your soul’s purpose through your Soul Aura Colour. She helps people align with their soul’s path through intuitive and energy based practices.