Are you thinking exercise has the only role to develop am muscular body and nothing else? Well, you are absolutely wrong. Think about mental health. Exercise has shown is positive effect to keep us healthy both mentally and emotionally. </p>

<p>Research is going on to prove the different aspects of exercise that promotes the feel good of mental health. Scientists at the Duke University, USA experimented on the people suffering from mental anxiety for four months. They have found that about 60% of the participants who did some exercise for 30 minutes three times a week managed to beat their depression without using any medication. This is at par with the patients who took medication only to treat the depression. </p>

<p>It is not imperative for a person to be a patient of mental disease to get the benefit of exercises. A study discovered that brisk workout of mere 8 minutes could help to reduce sadness, anger and tension along with developing resistance to various diseases even in healthy people. Many people do exercise to enhance their confidence besides reducing stress and anxiety. All of them contribute to psychological health. Therefore, exercise can be regarded as preventive measure, which may truly help to avoid physical and psychological conditions. Even small outpouring of activities help individual sense better that means one does not need to spend hours to achieve genuine mental health benefits. </p>

<p>One reason that comes up as the cause of the betterment is exercise does help in the release of some ‘feel good’ hormone- endorphin. This hormone released in the brain increases the pain threshold of the human. People feel a state of happiness if the hormone level increases. Exercise improves the sleep pattern, thus improving the mental health. </p>