The kleshas describe ways in which our mind can participate in our suffering. The kleshas are often referred to as obstructions or colorings.
Literally ask yourself, “In what way(s) is this thought colored?”
The five kleshas or colorings are as follows:

Avidya – Ignorance, spiritual forgetting, veiling.  A sense of separation that comes from confusing our true self, timeless Unity, with our changing personality.

Asmita – Associated with I-ness.  Identification with and seeking solutions through the personality, where the “I” with all of its expectations, is always at the center of every situation.

Raga – Attraction or drawing to. The part of us that wants and desires.
And
Dvesha – Aversion or pushing away. That part of us that wants to avoid or be in denial.
Together, these two kleshas show the binding likes and dislikes that form a cycle of craving and seeking happiness only through the personality.

Abhinivesha – Resistance to loss, fear. Existential fear and anxiety that go along with identifying myself as  limited and mortal.

Avidya is the ground for the other obstacles or colorings.  It is Avidya (spiritual forgetting) that allows us to get entangled in the thought in the first place.
This is the natural tendancy of our mind. It is not bad, it just is.
Within Asmita, the coloring of I-ness is nenecessary for attraction, aversion, and fear to have any power.
Since we are filtered into individual units, or bodies, we forget that we are all from the same One Source.
Once there is the primary forgetting called Avidya, and the rising of individuality called Asmita, there is now the potential for attachment, or Raga.
Aversion or Dvesha, is the flip side of attachment. It is what we are trying to mentally push away or avoid.
The resistance to losing the delicate balance among the false identities is called fear of death of those identities and our bodies which is Abhinivesha..

Witnessing these thoughts, we can learn to talk to the mind. We can train the mind, saying “Mind, this is not useful!. Or Mind, this is useful”.
Witnessing, labeling, and mindfulness can help alleviate suffering.