Martial Nonviolence, for instance, presupposes compassion to include at least the following components in variable combination and sequence:

• Bracketing (putting to the side for the moment without devaluing) one's reactions to one's own emotional state
• Fully attending to another's experience
• Imagining how the other's experience and attendant presuppositions can be real
• Expressing, where authentically possible, alignment with or understanding of the other in fact and imagination