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Is regular exercise good for mental health?
Exercise can improve interpersonal relationships.

In work and life, we can often see that people with good interpersonal relationships are always in a good mood, radiant and full of interest in anything; People with bad interpersonal relationships are often listless, depressed and lack the fun they deserve in life.

Psychologists have found through observation that people with good interpersonal relationships are better at creating opportunities for contact with others than people with bad interpersonal relationships, thus improving their familiarity with each other and generating stronger attraction. Being keen on sports is one of them. Because sports are always carried out in a certain social environment, it is always in contact with the crowd.

We think that no matter the three major sports, tennis, badminton, table tennis, square dance, aerobics, skating and swimming. It is inseparable from contact with others. It can be said that exercise is a good form to increase the interaction between people.

Due to the need of sports itself, people can not only break through shyness, increase communication and understanding, coordinate interpersonal relationships and expand social contacts, but also find like-minded partners through sports and eliminate psychological loneliness.

Ding Zan, a famous professor of medical psychology in China, once pointed out that the most important thing for people's psychological adaptation is to adapt to interpersonal relationships, and exercise plays a great role in eliminating people's loneliness and improving interpersonal relationships.

Psychological research has found that extroverts have stronger social needs than introverts, in other words, introverts need to do more exercise to increase their chances of contact with others. Introverts should choose more team sports. The more people participate, the more they can enhance their vitality and win-win spirit, thus having better interpersonal relationships.

Exercise can relieve psychological stress.

Whether in daily life or in the interpretation of film and television dramas, we all hear such words, "Don't frown, let's sweat like rain on the treadmill, and our mood will be better." "Work pressure is so great, let's play a game to relax." These descriptions are by no means groundless, and exercise decompression is a very effective "good medicine" without side effects. In the face of this fast-paced real world, each of us has our own knot. Dealing with our own troubles and reducing anxiety and stress can all be solved by exercise.

Scientific research has found that exercise itself can promote the changes of human endocrine. After exercise, the brain will produce a substance called endorphin, and people's mood is related to the amount of endorphin secreted by the brain. Exercise can stimulate the secretion of endorphins. When the amount of exercise reaches a certain level, the secretion of endorphins increases. Stimulated by endorphins, people's body and mind are in a relaxed and happy state. Endorphins, therefore, are also called "happiness hormones", which can make people feel happy and satisfied, and help people to relieve stress and unhappiness.

Psychologists believe that exercise can relieve people's psychological burden caused by excessive mental stress, and it has the same release and catharsis effect as "knocking, smashing, skimming and throwing" when people are angry, but it is a reasonable behavior to use exercise instead to reduce or eliminate psychological stress.

Moreover, when we encounter psychological pressure, long-term meditation will cause physical discomfort and psychological fatigue, while exercise can change bad stimuli, improve the emotional state of tension, anxiety and uneasiness, improve psychological endurance and enhance adaptability.

3. Exercise can improve self-efficacy.

Through observation, it is not difficult to find that successful people like one or two sports. For example, Wang Shi likes climbing mountains, Ma Yun plays Tai Chi, and the runner is Pan Shiyi. We will also describe people who exercise regularly as "more active and focused", which psychology calls high psychological efficiency. This is the basic psychological quality that each of us needs to have in order to succeed, and sports thinking provides us with ways to improve it.

Before explaining the reasons, we need to understand self-efficacy. Generally speaking, it is people's confidence in whether they can use the skills they have to complete a certain work behavior. In sports, we need to constantly overcome objective difficulties (environment, difficulty, accidents, etc.). ) and subjective difficulties (timidity, retreat, lack of confidence, etc. ) go to exercise. If we get affirmation, praise and envy in sports through constant practice, training and tempering, we will certainly get the cognition and peak experience of self-success.

Successful experience is the most important and basic way to influence self-efficacy. It is the most reliable proof to test whether you can mobilize everything you need for success and the most effective support to improve your sense of self-efficacy.