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Arun Kumar

2 papers in the library · publishing 2013-2026

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Escapism Versus Sustainable Well-being: Romanticized Travel in Media and the Psychological Reality of Nature-based Health Tourism

April 3, 2026 Shruti Singh, Arun Kumar

Travel has long been romanticized as a transformative trip leading to personal discovery and psychological healing. Travel literature and films such as Eat, Pray, Love tend to portray travel as an escape from interior conflict, promising a fundamental and enduring transformation. These are oversimplifications of the multidimensionality of mental health, with unrealistic expectations being...

Karma yoga: A path towards work in positive psychology.

Indian Journal of Psychiatry 2013 Arun Kumar, Sanjay Kumar

Karma yoga is the path that leads to salvation through action. Salvation is the ultimate state of consciousness. Work is the central and defining characteristic of life. It may have intrinsic value, instrumental value, or both. Instrumental value includes incentive, dignity and power, etc., which is the result expected from the work. The Gita teaches us to do work without thinking of result...