Attention vs. Awareness

A tension is really the avenue through which our awareness comes and can also increase. So I need to practice cultivating steadier and steadier attention that sometimes requires struggling against the usual mind that wants to wander around. The usual mind is anywhere but here, any other time but now. It's like almost it belongs to the opposing team but it's like a dog which is barking because the master is not at home. If the master comes home, which in this context would mean, if I can be really present to myself, then the dog stops barking.