Why do I need to give my date of birth for remote sessions?

Q: Why do I need to give my date of birth for remote sessions?

In remote energy work, your name, date of birth and photo together act as a unique 'address' — the practitioner's way of directing sessions to you specifically rather than to someone with a similar name. This targeting model is traditional across distant-healing practices and scientifically unverified. The details are used only for sessions, never shared or sold.

Being asked for your date of birth and a photo by a wellness service is a fair moment to pause. Here's the actual reasoning, what we do with the information, and the honest caveats.

The role your details play

Remote energy practices — scalar work, distant Reiki, and older distant-healing traditions alike — face an obvious question: how does a session performed at a distance reach you and not someone else? The traditional answer is a set of uniquely identifying details used as a focus, or "address":

Full name — the primary identifier, but names are shared by many people
Date of birth — what makes the combination effectively unique
Recent photo — an additional focus for the practitioner during sessions

Within the working model of how remote scalar energy works, sessions carry information non-locally, and these details specify the recipient. The honest caveat, as always: this targeting mechanism is proposed, not proven — no experiment verifies it, a point we treat candidly in does scalar energy work? What we can say is that the convention long predates scalar terminology and is standard across distant-healing lineages, including distant Reiki.

One thing your date of birth is not used for: astrology, numerology or any profiling. It's an identifier, nothing more.

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How your information is handled

Reasonable privacy standards apply regardless of what one believes about mechanisms:

Your details are used only to run your sessions — never sold, shared or added to third-party marketing lists
No payment details are collected for the trial, so your identifying information isn't linked to any billing profile
You can ask for your data to be deleted at any time, and if you don't continue after the trial, there's no reason for it to be retained

If handing over a date of birth still feels uncomfortable, that instinct is healthy — we'd rather you ask this question than not. The full sign-up flow, including exactly what happens each day, is walked through in what to expect during the trial.

The details exist to make the free 6-day trial possible: name, date of birth and photo in — six days of remote sessions out, with no payment information and your own results as the measure.