Professor Li has been actively involved in Mindfulness and Meditation practices for over two decades. Her personal implementation of these techniques began in 1993 she has studied both Taoist and Buddhist mindfulness and meditation techniques. From 1998 onwards she has used these practices as a holistic approach to her own well-being (including physical, mental, social, intellectual, and spiritual). Since 2010 Professor Li has integrated a five-minute meditation relaxation into the Psychology courses she teaches during a small break period; this small institution of meditation was greeted by widespread positive feedback from the students involved.

Professor Li has been incorporated her knowledge of mindfulness and meditation practices into numerous philanthropic and volunteer opportunities. During the summer and fall semesters of 1999, the fall semester of 2000, and the winter semester of 2001 Professor Li orchestrated a weekly Wellness Activity on meditation. This group met for one hour per week on the campus of Northeastern University. In 2013 alongside Dr. Libo Song of China and some of her graduate students Professor Li volunteered at the Boston Latin School to instruct a weekly after-school mindfulness and meditation session aimed at helping students to reduce stress and to improve their psychological, physical, and academic well-being via a positive, holistic solution.

Professor Li has also shared her knowledge of mindfulness and meditation as an approach to physical and psychological well-being at Northeastern University multiple times, the following is a a list of such events.

2012: Presented stress Reduction through Mindfulness to Northeastern University physician assistant class, 6/21/2012.

2012: Presented Eastern Mindfulness Training in American Classrooms- an application of Eastern mindfulness cultivation to school-based promotion of health at the colloquium sponsored by the Department of Counseling and Applied Educational Psychology, Bouve College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University, spring 2012.

2000: Presented at Counseling Center of Northeastern University on advanced traditional Chinese internal qigong (a meditation-like exercise) as an approach to wellbeing of the whole person.

1997-99: Presented on “Chi, a holistic approach to wellness” during Northeastern University’s Wellness week. [Chi (气) is a concept in Taoist meditation, Traditional Chinese medicine, and Traditional Chinese Qigong. It is often translated as “bio-energy” in English].