Our guest this month is Hay house published author, artist and spiritual teacher, Helen Plehn, who has trained in an impressive number of spiritual modalities. Her book called Aura Colour Wheel presents a radical system of looking at the aura and the chakra system in the light of our soul path, lessons and wounds.

We started the discussion by talking about Feng Shui as I wanted to honour Helen's Chinese heritage and knowledge of Feng Shui, and the image for these show notes was taken whilst we recorded the episode in zoom when Helen excitedly reached out for the compass that was used by her grand mother and handed down to her dad, then to herself as a third generation Feng Shui master.

Helen also shared about her kundalini energy experience and how this suddenly allowed her to see spirit through the opening of her third eye but also how it took her a couple of weeks to integrate the energy with the support of her spiritual teachers, particularly to learn to close her third eye to be able to function in the 3D world.

We talked about her mother's recent cancer diagnosis and healing that she calls a miracle as it happened on the back of her mother releasing the anger she held against her own parents, which was stored in her solar plexus, and that had created liver cancer. Helen explained that her mother does not believe in any of the angelic and spiritual teachings of her daughter but that this helped her nevertheless.

Even though the Aura Colour Wheel is complex, this does not deprive us of our free will.

You can find out more about Helen and take her quiz on her website www.helencreatesbeauty.com. If you purchase her book, which is available on all the platforms where books are sold, you will receive three bonuses that you can claim here. So make sure you keep your receipt so you can enter the details on her website. One is a personal reading that will allow you to start the year with a bang by knowing a very important personal number that will help you find out about your prosperous direction. The second is access to Helen's facebook community. And the third derives from the second as Helen does monthly live Q+As in that community.

If you buy Helen's book and you enjoy it, you can vote for it in the Conscious Life Expo Book Award with this link. No purchase required though.

Helen has also started a podcast on her YouTube Channel at the start of January 2026 which you can watch live every Monday at 10 am Pacific Time called the Aura Evolution Podcast.

Songs can carry a mix of energies and because we listen to them in a state of semi-hypnosis the lyrics and that mixed energy can unduly influence us in our beliefs. In order to demonstrate this, I went through what are considered to be the top 10 most popular songs in the UK and I deconstructed them to prove my point.

1. All of Me - John Legend
2. I Will Always Love You - Whitney Huston
3. The Power of Love - Jennifer Rush
4. Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol
5. Thinking Out Loud - Ed Sheeran
6. I don't want to miss a thing - Aerosmith
7. Just the Way You Are - Bruno Mars
8. Angels - Robbie Williams
9. Everything I do, I do for you - Bryan Adams
10. My heart will go on - Celine Dion

The problem that I have with most of those songs, except perhaps Bruno Mars' song (although it's problematic in a different way), is that they have less than ideal messages wrapped up in a pretty box with a bow. That pretty box is a fine tune or a lovely melody and often it comes with a beautiful voice, but the message is still problematic.

There are of course wonderful songs and I have a playlist called High Vibe. Some of the songs you can find in there are:

1. Mr Blue SKy - ELO
2. Thank you - Bliss
3. Here comes the sun - the Beatles
4. Intuition - John Lennon
5. Happy - Pharrell Williams
6. W.i.t.c.h. - Devon Cole

If you have a favourite high vibe song you would like to share with us, why not share it in the comments on the podcast show notes on my website. www.spirituallawyer.co.uk/podcast-2

On the 3rd of January, Trump launched military strikes on Venezuela and captured President Maduro and his wife in violation of the UN charter and Venezuela's sovereignty. I believe this vastly increased the chances of WW3. For the first time, I went to bed wondering in what state I would find the world when I woke up the next day?

Why? Because up to now, for all its faults, the USA was considered a European ally and a force to fight Putin's nefarious ambitions. And for the first time, the USA has stopped being an ally. It has joined the ranks of Russia and Israel in the belligerent and lawless states.

In truth the energy of WW3 has been building steadily since February 2022 since Russia invaded Ukraine. And the energy of war has actually dominated the world for a very long time, over the energy of Peace. There have been 285 armed conflicts since 1946.

The energy of war is one of the energy drains that can affect us at the moment and one that we will be clearing during my five day challenge starting on the 26th of January 2026. So sign up for the challenge to be part of the movement for Peace.

This episode, however is here to show you that there is something we can do. Not only that, we have reached a tipping point where the energy of Peace is actually stronger than the energy of war and I want to invite you to do what you can to be part of this incredible movement full of hope.

To hear Barbara answer my question of whether we have reached a tipping point that will take us from destruction to salvation, click here.