Yogi: Is there is a relationship between emotion and body sensation?
Sayadaw: Obviously, because when there’s a reaction in the mind, the chest feels something. Because of emotion, the body becomes warm or tense – you can notice both at the same time.
There is no need to focus on the body sensation – just know; awareness means just to see, not to focus. Let the process happen, just as if we’re watching a movie.
That’s the best way because then we can realize something from the process if we let it happen again and again. If you focus, you get involved with the process, and you interfere with nature.
When the mind is strong enough, it can see in greater detail naturally. Remember that mind and object will match each other (blur mind, blur object; clear mind, clear object).
The thing to do is to make the awareness stronger, to build up the quality of the mind. Awareness-samadhi-wisdom is weak when craving is present, and you can only notice the gross level.