Build With Everyone: How LEGO® Sets Can Bring Mindfulness and Connection During Ramadan

LEGO® sets are so much more than just bright, colourful building bricks for kids. This universally loved product has become an integral part of our lifestyles, no matter how old or young we are. We all enjoy giving each other gifts that we believe will really mean something and connect us with one another. Our Ramadan gift ideas for adults mean you can include a LEGO set or two and make someone smile.

During Ramadan, we spend a lot of time with our families. It’s a chance to learn more about one another and to strengthen bonds between the generations. It is a time of mindfulness when we reflect on our lives, our role within the family unit and how we interconnect with others around us.

So, how do LEGO sets make the ideal Ramadan gifts for adults? Working on a LEGO set together, with family or as a couple, can encourage mindfulness, rebuild bridges without judgement, and open us all up to new experiences.

What is mindfulness?

There has been a lot of talk in recent years about mindfulness. It is a therapeutic practice that has been proven to help relieve the effects of anxiety, stress and depression, as well as producing a calming and relaxing effect. Essentially, it is a form of meditation focusing on the moment. It emphasises understanding how you feel at that particular moment by putting aside anything that’s happened before or what may occur in the future.

LEGO sets give you the perfect opportunity to do exactly that, as you are totally focused on the creative process. When working on a set like the LEGO® The Fauna Collection – Macaw Parrots 31211, you have the opportunity to really tune into yourself. One key element of mindfulness is that there is no judgement involved. With mindfulness, there is no wrong or right way to do something, only the process itself. By adopting a mindful approach to a task, we zone in entirely on the moment, stilling the constant internal chatter that we all have inside our brains.

How LEGO building can encourage connection in relationships

Building a LEGO set can also help you build more solid relationships, whether that's connecting with your children or your partner. LEGO mindfulness can help reinforce a range of social skills, especially allowing individuals to express emotions and thoughts by focussing on the building process together.

For couples, it also provides them with a shared hobby that they can enjoy together, reestablishing a stronger connectivity and perhaps even rekindling that sense of pure fun and joy that we have at the beginning of a relationship. Working on the LEGO® Wildflower Bouquet 10313 set, for example, allows you to create something for your home together.

While the creative side of LEGO play is obvious, what is also important is how working on a LEGO build with another person makes you feel. It gives you that chance to reflect on your relationship with that person, supporting one another and creating a bond built on trust, teamwork and engagement.

Mindfulness is designed to help still a restless mind understand our place within a relationship and to build a stronger bond with the individuals around us. It also teaches us to focus our minds so that we are more aware of our surroundings and how we move through the world – a vital element of the contemplative principles of Ramadan as well.

So you see, those simple, colourful, joyful little bricks have so much more to offer than you might think. Not only do they make the perfect Ramadan gift for adults, but they connect us on a much deeper level than we realise. Why not try LEGO mindfulness this Ramadan for yourself and see where your imagination, creativity, and sense of fun take you?