When you have identified a theme (of emotion) that keeps arising in consciousness, make a composite image to represent it. When it arises in the future, locate the sensation of the emotion in your aura, disregard any mental picture on the mental screen, superimpose the healing image that represents it into that space, and then banish it from your aura by breathing it into the earth.
When using CBT, link a tarot card to each of the ten distortions (or other image such as something relevant from classical art, then use that as a replacement thought. This way, CBT isn’t just a journaling practice in retrospect, it becomes a type of active mindfulness, holding healing images to replace distorted trains of (manifesting) thought.
Don’t forget, you are not just replacing thoughts, each has an associated state (feeling and sensation) and you are replacing it all, thought, inner-voice, state and sensation.
Speak directly to the imagined you in the past. Remember, it is a real version of you in another reality. Boom your voice down to them in reassurance and encouragement like a god speaking to them, because this is what you are in the present.