After attending a meditation retreat and perceiving the connections between mind and matter in my own body, I've begun to think differently about emotions. Emotions are not nouns to be intellectually apprehended, but rather bodily sensations to be experienced. They are not something to be controlled but observed and understood. Emotion regulation then may be reimagined through stories that bring awareness to bodily sensations instead of prescriptive guidelines for behavior. That is the idea behind "contemplative reading for children," a book that invites children to experience their bodily sensations and understand rather than repress them. Originally, books invite readers to suspend their bodies and enter a different world. But how can reading prompt children to enter a contemplative state? Secondly, how the language that children understand may affect their experience? This asks a deeper question about to what extent language limits our apprehension and sharing of reality. If children who speak different languages are prompted with the same descriptive bodily sensations, would they report the same experiences? What if they could create their own words for their experiences?