If you want to place your awareness on a body part, for women it is better to place it on the space of the solar plexus, the Alter Point. Do not try to direct your Qi flow consciously, let it flow out and let your awareness follow the Qi. Do not try to imagine fire or movement anywhere within your body. When you have been doing seated meditation, make sure you get up slowly when you finish . Since the practice of Qigong can be translated literally as Breath Work, the technic of breathing is an integral part of Qigong practice.
Breathing is our gateway to our voluntary and autonomic nervous systems.
Respiration can be conscious or unconscious, as when you are asleep or have fainted. Since breathing involves both the voluntary and the involuntary nervous systems, Taoist masters shrewdly observed that our emotions influence the way we breathe. When we are angry our breathing becomes heavy. When we are sad our breathing becomes choked. When we are happy our breathing becomes fluid and smooth.