Joy: Hard to define, easy to identify. While success, financial security, meaning and overall well-being are primary drivers in our lives, at the root of our goals in life is finding joy. Though joy is more than a fleeting, superficial feeling. It can be the sound of your child's laughter or the sense of pride that comes with a major work promotion. It's also the small things, such as biting into a chocolate cupcake or watching your favorite show. Joy can be enormously empowering, liberating and beneficial to your health. For many, joy may be the driving force in life, but they've never had a firm understanding as to why. This special edition from TIME goes inside the power of joy to explain its many effects on your life. Highlights include: Finding joy even in difficult or stressful times, cultivating joyful relationships, from friendships to marriages and families, how pursuing and finding joy can lead to success in many areas of life, joy as a key component to health and wellness, and beyond faith – the connections of joy to religious life and secular life.