First of all, physical exercise provides a solid material foundation for the development of mental health.
Human psychology is the activity of human brain. The development of mental health must be based on a normal and healthy body, especially on a normal and healthy nervous system and brain. Physical exercise can promote students' normal and healthy physical development and provide a solid material foundation for psychological development. This is an important condition for psychological development.
Second, physical exercise is the driving force of psychological development.
Compared with daily natural body movements, sports are different in content and form. Therefore, the original psychological level often can't meet the needs of the learned sports. For example, sprinting requires a short incubation period and a good perception of distance and speed. Another example is the layup with the ball in the basketball game. Because we need to know the position of the players and pay more attention, we should not only take the ball forward, but also prevent the other side from blocking the net, so we need to be good at distracting. Almost any sport requires athletes to have good will qualities such as courage, persistence, self-control, and fear of difficulties, as well as various emotions such as optimism, friendship, happiness and sympathy. The above-mentioned psychological activities and psychological characteristics, as far as a person's natural development level is concerned, can certainly not meet the needs of physical education learning and sports competition. However, in the sports activities carried out by students in order to continuously improve their sports level or defeat their opponents, the original psychological level is gradually improved. In other words, the contradiction between the new demands of sports and the original psychological level promotes the development of psychology.
Third, physical exercise can promote the development of self-awareness.
Sports help students understand themselves. Sports are mostly collective and competitive activities, and their ability, cultivation and charm will be clearly displayed, so that they can have a more real understanding of themselves. Exercise also helps self-education. On the basis of a more correct understanding of self, we should consciously or unconsciously correct our own understanding and behavior, cultivate and improve the psychological quality and various abilities needed by society, and make ourselves more in line with social needs and adapt to society.
Fourth, physical exercise can cultivate good will quality.
Sports are generally characterized by hardship, fatigue, fierceness, tension, confrontation and strong competitiveness. When students take part in physical exercise, they are always accompanied by strong emotional experience and obvious will. Therefore, through sports, it is helpful to cultivate students' ideological style of being brave, tenacious, hard-working, persistent and overcoming difficulties, to cultivate the spirit of unity, friendship, collectivism and patriotism, and to cultivate the will quality of being witty, flexible, calm and decisive, modest and prudent. Let students maintain a positive, healthy and uplifting mental state. Physical education class actively participates in various extracurricular recreational activities, which is beneficial to students' physical health and provides a solid material foundation for healthy psychology. It can play a positive role in students' physical and mental development. Physical exercise can promote the development of body shape, improve human function, improve sports ability, and play a positive role in improving students' understanding level, cultivating good mood and will quality and forming excellent personality characteristics.
Because physical exercise is achieved through students' own physical exercise, it not only enhances students' physique, but also has a positive role in promoting students' mental health.