Yogi: I try to recall moments when I don’t have awareness – i.e., when there are emotions, desires, anger. When wrong view and defilements are present, awareness is lost. 

Sayadaw: When you have defilement action, awareness is gone. When you have wrong view, defilement overwhelms you. 

That’s why we try to practice all the time. Every time there are awareness and right view, we can know ourselves very well, everything in detail – how good or bad we are; we can know ourselves everything in detail. 

If you have the right practice, slowly the mind has more interest in the practice because faith or saddha in the practice increases.