Why you don't need protection...

Regarding the need for protection and bringing in the white light to ward off negative people---I wanted to offer a different side of this.

Consider this:
Consider turning around the recipient of your prayers. Instead of praying for protection for yourself, which you don't need because you are all love, pray for healing of the others who are trying to pull you down with them in their negative energy. The fact that they want to bring you down to their state of mind means that they are pretty bad off themselves. How sad. Bless them and pray for THEM, not protection for you. Stay in the love and light, pray for them, and move on.

If you focus on love and healing for the injured party (not you, them, as evidenced by their need to bring you down with them), you do not have to fall prey to "what you resist, persists." It is easier to be detached when you are not bringing it upon your self, but blessing others and moving on.

Take what you want from my ramblings, I wanted to offer them because it is something I learned the hard way, and my life is so much more enriched for it.