in the last 10 years, compassion meditation and loving kindness meditation have been the subject of increasing clinical interest. this is consistent with the growth of publications relating compassion meditation and loving kindness meditation in mainstream Western meditative culture, a number of novel interventions have been formulated with the intention of opera-tionalizing compassion meditation and loving kindness meditation as palatable tecniques for western service users. Of notable interest is an intervention known as cognitively based compassion therapy.