Research shows that regular running exercise can not only improve the physical fitness of exercisers, promote their health and prevent some chronic diseases, but also improve their life satisfaction and quality of life, which has a significant positive impact on their mental health.

1. The study found that running exercise can significantly improve people's emotional state. After exercise, people's unhealthy negative emotional symptoms such as anxiety and anxiety are obviously alleviated, while their energy and happiness level are obviously improved. This rapid change of mood is directly related to personal health, activity form and activity intensity, and running exercise also has a long-term impact on people's mood. Compared with the lack of running exercise, people who run regularly are less likely to have various negative emotions such as anxiety, depression, nervousness and psychological barriers for a long time.

2. Establishing a good self-concept refers to an individual's subjective comprehensive evaluation of his body, thoughts and emotions. It contains a lot of self-knowledge, including who I am, what I stand for and what I like. Persistent running exercise can make exercisers become strong and energetic, improve their ability to control their bodies, thus improving their self-satisfaction and establishing a good self-concept.

3. According to EEG, people's sleep can be divided into two states, namely, slow-wave sleep state and fast-wave sleep state. The former is a light sleep state, and the latter is a deep sleep state. The two sleep states alternate 4-5 times at night. Regular running and exercise can not only promote slow-wave sleep, but also shorten sleep latency and prolong sleep time.

4. Improving cognitive ability Running exercise can also improve people's cognitive process and avoid symptoms such as long reaction time, inattention and confusion, especially for the elderly.

5. Improve the effect of psychotherapy. Long-term running and exercise are helpful to treat mental health. Nowadays, the most common mental disorders are depression and anxiety. The study found that running exercise is one of the effective methods to treat depression. After regular physical exercise, the symptoms of depression can be significantly reduced. Running exercise can also treat anxiety. After long-term regular running exercise, the anxiety symptoms of exercisers have been obviously improved.