How would you bind cognitive learning to affective experience as a method of internal self discipline?

Hmm. I suppose that you could study a certain subject every time that you felt a certain emotion, and that would train you to feel that emotion every time you studied that subject. Whether that would make you more or less likely to study that subject would depend on the emotion that you worked on associating it with. To a lesser extent, that is what people try to do when they study at a certain time of day when they feel that they have more energy. That helps the emotion (the feeling of energy, or belonging to a certain time of day, as in "I'm a Morning Person") connect with the thought process of studying, usually having positive results.