Reiki was taught and learned very intensively under Dr Usui. The students met once a week to meditate, apply Reiki together, and practice scanning the body until they succeeded in reaching a type of energetic diagnosis wherein the body was treated accordingly. Some Reiki practitioners are immediately successful in doing this. The Reiki power naturally finds its own path, precisely where it is needed. However, this does not exclude the possibility of the people giving the treatment following their own inspiration with their hands.
In Japan, the Reiki path is seen as a course of life that is followed through many decades to the end of a person's days.
