Paula Marie Jackson co-founded Light-Induced Guided Healing Therapy (LIGHT), a research-backed mind-body protocol to augment self-efficacy and deliver several other benefits that improve physical and mental quality of life. She was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) in 1999, and due to the severity of her case, she was told she'd be wheelchair-bound within six months. Instead of giving in, supported by her spiritually-centered mother, she devoted herself to prayer and meditation, which led to spectacular realizations that she encoded into a specific visualization and self-hypnosis protocol that she repeated daily. In a few months, she regained the use of several afflicted faculties and returned to work.
In 2011, Paula decided to find a way to deliver her mind-body practice to others with similar challenges on her mother's insistence — this meant putting it to the test using the rigors of science to be sure of its benefits and applications before sharing it with the public. That started the journey of LIGHT as a protocol designed to be standardized, repeatable, and transferable as required by the research paradigm. Two pilot studies were conducted at the University of California, San Diego, over the next eight years, leading to solid data supporting the protocol's efficacy that encouraged the university to include LIGHT as a curriculum for self-care.
In 2019, Paula launched a certified training program for advanced hypnotherapists to become LIGHT professionals at the Centers of Integrative Health (CIH) within UC San Diego. She has now accepted LIGHT as her life's work to aid humanity and raise consciousness.
Publications
Case, L. K., Jackson, P., Kinkel, R., & Mills, P. J. (2018). Guided imagery improves mood, fatigue, and quality of life in individuals with multiple sclerosis: An exploratory efficacy trial of healing light guided imagery. Journal of Evidence-Based Integrative Medicine, 23, 2515690X17748744. doi:10.1177/2515690X17748744
Hsu, S.-H., Zi, Y., Wu, Y., Jackson, P., & Jung, T.-P. (2018). Exploring mental state changes during hypnotherapy using adaptive mixture independent component analysis of EEG. IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIOCAS), 1-6. doi:10.1109/BIOCAS.2018.8584715