"You don't have to protect yourself from anything! In fact, an attitude of protection will surely bring you to the vibration of the thing from which you're protecting yourself. Because you can't look at something and say, "Oh no, I'm saying a prayer to protect myself from you," without achieving vibrational harmony with "you", whatever you are." Abraham

What we focus on, even when we shout "no," ratchets its vibratory essence into our vibratory signature and then the fun begins. I want protection from (you fill this in). This isn't just a cursory view of something that then brings our focus into what we actually want to experience, but this is a focus on the unwanted thing that we keep pretty active in our thoughts. Abraham tells us that this is but another way we say "yes" to something and the process of experiencing subtleties and overt manifestations of it now is in the works. Another reminder to give minimal energies to absolutely anything we don't like--anything current in the news that might fit into that category?