There are several steps involved in the process of cognitive restructuring. The primary ones are as given below: Step 1: bring yourself into a calm and composed state. When you find yourself upset, stressed, or anxious about the thoughts you are planning to explore and understand, it creates a blockage and you will find it hard to concentrate on the tool at hand.  Step 2: the next most important step is to identify the target situation. Be aware and focused while in the process of identifying and trying to understand what exactly about the situation is anxiety-provoking and inhibiting you from moving forward.  Step 3: analyze the mood. The general mood matters and must be stable and neutral for the treatment to go forward without interruptions. Make sure you’re not in an irritable or imbalanced mood.  Step 4: make not of automatic thoughts. This is the next step. Once you are calm, composed, and grounded try to bring the automatic negative thoughts into your awareness and how are they affecting your thought process. These automatic negative thoughts comprise the core issues that further leads to more serious disorders.  Step 5: find objective support and evidence to prove your thoughts right. This will help you to gain clarity about the genuineness and value of your automatic negative thoughts. Once you find that there is no valid evidence to support the authenticity of your automatic thoughts, you can directly get to the step of identifying what is causing you to let these thoughts dominate your cognitive processes.