For years and years I have been deflecting negative energy by visualizing myself in a sphere with a mirrored surface. I have begun thinking lately that this mirror doesn't just keep the energy away from me, it also returns it to the source (which seems like violence) and probably reinforces it and increases it.

About a month ago I ran across this picture

and I started thinking what I should be doing is this:

1. Visualize the negative energy as a "black light"
2. Draw it into the top of the subtle body, into the Crown chakra, down the sushumna to the Heart chakra
3. Use the Heart energy to change the "black light" to "white light"
4. Push the "white light" down the sushumna and out through the feet
5. Circulate it up around the "surface" of the subtle body.

This way instead of just getting rid of the negativity you are transmuting it and spreading the resulting positive rays around.
It has been working out pretty well. I think the people around be seem to benefit, and I am sure I do. It feels good! Try it!