Yogi: How can the mind be better at watching the awareness?
Sayadaw: Relax and don’t push too much to be aware. If there is too much effort, it is more difficult to know the awareness because the mind goes straight to the object.
It helps if you can see how much energy the mind uses to be aware. You can see the awareness better when you don’t focus too much on the object.
Continuity of awareness – moment to moment, try to be aware because the nature of awareness becomes more obvious when the awareness is more continuous.
When you practice continuously, the mind matures and can notice that the awareness and the object are separate.
If you notice the attention mind, the mind paying attention to this and to that, then it is easy to see the awareness. (If awareness is absent, you won’t know that the mind is paying attention to the object.)