Kindness

Kindness

The pathway to cultural commodity for these concepts in their re-packaged form is increasingly coming from psychological mental health treatments. 
Both compassion and mindfulness have been systematised as a medical treatment and are now widely offered in mental health services. 
They're appropriated by the psychiatric profession from various sources including modern life-style gurus, (often American or Australian) , adapted ancient philosophies and scientific research. 
Compassion doesn't replace the mindfulness model, it compliments it.