There are people who manage to cross the limits drawn by science. Often these people are labeled as phenomena as if we try to bring them down to the frames we know. Meanwhile, the wings of others who might dare to look for the light outside the box and the known limits, in order to find the right path, are often cut off.

Gergana Branzova is one of the most successful Bulgarian basketball players and she has managed to leave behind her back a disease that cannot be cured by modern medical treatment. She managed to win the fight against MS thanks to a special diet and mostly thanks to studying the metaphysical reasons behind the disease.

“I felt the first symptoms on January 1, 2013 when I woke up and I could not see with one of my eyes. I started going to doctors and I soon heard the diagnosis which I was familiar with because my mother suffered from that disease. Later I could choose whether I should turn to medical treatment. I asked the professor about the chances for success and he said that one or two people out of 3000 feel improvement. I decided to follow another path. That is how I started searching for the roots of my condition. I decided to raise my self-awareness.”

By chance she found Ann Boroch’s book “Healing Multiple Sclerosis.” “I learned that MS was my strength and I started walking the path towards complete self-awareness and discovering my inner world, ego, character, etc.,” Gergana Branzova says.

“Thoughts are the basis and we need to learn what they do in our life,” she says. “We need to take a look at ourselves, and also to free ourselves from all frames and definitions that we had been subjected to. But perhaps the most important thing is to be true to ourselves. This is what I did, along with a diet free of gluten, dairy products and sugar.”

Two years after the initial diagnosis, the scanner showed that there was no sign of the disease and doctors were puzzled. For Gergana Branzova, however, there was nothing strange - she just managed to read the messages of her body and change. Overwhelmed with questions, she decided to share her experience in a book that was recently published.

"’Consciousness and Body in One’ is a guide to a positive change in which I share my philosophy of life,” the author says. “We need to be responsible and conscious, to be good to ourselves, to care about other people, to smile from the inside out, to look at life from various perspectives, to create beauty, to be open to the new and the unknown. This is what body and consciousness in one means for me. The book also contains a two-week program called ‘Let's Start Together.’ It could help with detoxification and through specific techniques and ways of thinking, we can accomplish a change.”

Today, Gergana Branzova leads a colorful and very active life. She says she enjoys every minute and is happy even when she cries. The former WNBA player and player of Turkish Fenerbahce team now lives with her Turkish husband and three children in Istanbul, where she runs a basketball academy for children, working on projects with the International Basketball Federation and foundations. She has also been dreaming of opening a basketball academy for the children of Burgas in memory of her father – great Bulgarian basketball player and coach Boycho Branzov.

English: Alexander Markov