Since a “belief” can be purely “indicative” (A-descriptive), the belief bridge (B) between activating events (A) and emotional consequences (C) is understood to consist of a different kind of “belief”: a mental construct that might be called “imperative” or, in plain language, an “intention”. Intention is closely related to emotion, in that negative and positive emotions result (respectively) from the frustration and fulfillment of intentions. Chronic negative emotions result from fixed and strong intentions that are continually frustrated. The task of the counselor is to find means to help the client unfix or reduce the intensity of these intentions. Intentions are arranged in a hierarchy, and it is helpful to use a technique such as inference chaining to find higher-level intentions, in order to help the client become less fixated on lower-level ones. Intentions formed during a traumatic incident can become fixed when the trauma is suppressed. An anamnestic technique called Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR) can help the client to discover and re-evaluate the circumstances under which an intention was formed and thus to have an opportunity to rationally revise or discontinue it.