On the Relationship between Physical Exercise and Mental Health —— On the Relationship between Physical Exercise and Promoting Mental Health
Abstract: At present, many students in our country have psychological barriers to varying degrees, which affect their study and life to varying degrees. Physical exercise is not only a physical activity, but also a psychological activity and social activity, which is not only beneficial to physical health, but also has a positive role in promoting people's mental health and social adaptation. School physical education should give full play to the psychological health education function of physical exercise. The World Health Organization clearly points out that health refers to a perfect state in physical, psychological and social aspects, not just the absence of disease and weakness. ? A person is truly healthy only if he maintains a healthy state physically and psychologically and has good social adaptability. At the same time, the Decision of the State Council Central Committee on Deepening Education Reform and Promoting Quality Education in an All-round Way points out: Healthy body is the basic premise for teenagers to serve the motherland and the people, and it is the embodiment of the vigorous vitality of the Chinese nation. Should school education be established? Health first? Guiding ideology, strengthening sports work. ? The health problems of students in China have become an important task of school education and school physical education.
[Keywords:] college physical education, physical exercise, mental health
First, the main manifestations of the impact of physical exercise on mental health
1. Physical exercise and emotion
Physical exercise can improve mood. Emotion is people's attitude and experience about whether objective things meet their own needs. Emotion is the main index to measure the influence of physical exercise on mental health. Good emotions can strengthen people's behavior, while negative emotions will affect people's normal study and work, and will also have many adverse effects on people's physiology and psychology. Long-term depression, anxiety and tension can also lead to illness. Physical exercise also provides people with an opportunity to divert their attention and let them stop worrying and suffering setbacks. In the monotonous and repetitive technical actions, thinking activities such as meditation and thinking may promote the reflection of thinking and the recovery of brain power. This effective concentration or transfer of attention can achieve the purpose of regulating emotions. Regular physical exercise can make the body feel great comfort. In all kinds of sports, feel the beauty, strength and rhythm of sports, so as to cultivate sentiment, broaden your mind, stimulate self-confidence and enterprising spirit of life, and form a good mental state of openness, optimism and cheerfulness.
2. Physical exercise and personality
Personality, also known as personality. Regular exercise is conducive to the formation of a correct world outlook and life goals, as well as a healthy, positive and enterprising personality. Winning in sports competitions encourages people to make progress and is conducive to the formation of personality. Failure is also a test of personality. Only by excavating the favorable factors in failure can we see the hope of success. Sports can improve the level of psychological frustration, correctly face and deal with all kinds of setbacks and difficulties when encountering setbacks and difficulties, and form noble personality and unique personality.
3. Physical exercise and psychological adaptation.
The most important psychological adaptation of human beings is the adaptation to interpersonal relationships. Interpersonal communication not only reflects people's health, but also normal and friendly communication between people is not only an indispensable condition for maintaining mental health, but also an important way to obtain mental health. Regular physical exercise in public places can not only improve interpersonal relationships, but also make people feel close to each other, meet the needs of individual social communication, enrich and develop people's lifestyles, help individuals forget the troubles brought by work and life, and eliminate mental stress and loneliness, thus bringing psychological benefits to individuals and contributing to the formation and improvement of interpersonal relationships.
4. Physical exercise and intelligence
Normal intelligence level is the most basic psychological condition for people to engage in various activities. To have normal intelligence, people must have a healthy nervous system and body. Cognitive behavior hypothesis points out that physical exercise can induce positive thinking and emotions.
Second, physical exercise can promote students' mental health.
Physical exercise is not only a physical activity, but also a psychological activity and social activity. Physical exercise is not only beneficial to health, but also plays a special role in people's psychological development because of its practicality, progressiveness, competitiveness, universality, systematicness and collectivity.
1. Physical exercise is beneficial to the adjustment and control of emotions.
Emotion is the experience of whether objective things meet people's needs, desires and viewpoints, and it is the reflection of whether people's needs are met. Healthy and stable emotions can make people keep a positive attitude towards reality and engage in study and work effectively. The diversity and attraction of physical exercise content can induce people's interest and hobby in physical exercise, and the complexity and variability of physical exercise content can also stimulate people's adaptability and ability. Regular physical exercise can not only arouse strong emotions quickly and keep optimistic, stable and healthy emotions, but also control and overcome the impulsiveness and variability of emotions. Emotional state is the most important symbol to measure the influence of sports activities on mental health, and it is also the experience produced by whether people's natural needs are met.
2. Physical exercise helps to cultivate people's will quality.
Will refers to the psychological process in which people consciously set goals, consciously control and adjust their actions, and overcome various difficulties to achieve the predetermined goals. Will quality is a stable and distinct psychological feature in a person's will behavior, and its connotation includes consciousness, decisiveness, toughness and self-control. Will quality is not only manifested in the process of overcoming difficulties, but also cultivated in the process of overcoming difficulties. Sports activities are composed of a series of random actions, which are generally characterized by hardship, fatigue, fierceness, tension and fierce competition. Therefore, physical exercise helps to cultivate students' courage and resilience. The spirit of hard work, perseverance and overcoming difficulties, so as to maintain a positive and healthy mental state.
3. Physical exercise is conducive to cultivating interpersonal skills.
Interpersonal communication is a communication process in which people communicate with each other, exchange opinions and express their feelings and needs by words and actions. A mentally healthy person should be tolerant, enthusiastic, friendly and gregarious, and can properly handle interpersonal relationships. Sports can make people practice and compete together in an equal, friendly and harmonious way, and make them feel close. In classroom and extracurricular sports activities. They don't use words, they just need a gesture. A few actions can directly or indirectly communicate information, exchange feelings, unconsciously feel close, and gain a higher sense of security and self-confidence. It can be seen that sports can make people know more friends, and everyone can live in harmony, love and help each other, and have a harmonious relationship. This kind of good interpersonal relationship can make people feel comfortable and excited. So as to better adapt to society.
Third, the conclusion
Whether from the current situation of school education in China or the development trend of school education abroad, it is a very important issue to strengthen students' mental health. Physical education plays an important role in the harmonious development of students' body and mind, the development of non-intellectual factors, the improvement of thinking level, aesthetic education, personality and other psychological qualities. According to the current physical education reform, we can promote the cultivation of students' psychological quality by reforming traditional teaching methods, giving full play to teachers' leading role, strengthening theoretical teaching, ensuring extracurricular sports activities and perfecting school sports competitions. Therefore, strengthening the cultivation of students' psychological quality should also be an important development direction of school physical education reform in the future.
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