Ok, its starting to seem like valuation is an important part of applying IM successfully, ie, how you value things in life. I talked about it a bit here:
Mind-Manual » Musings about Intending Money
Essentially, I think the way that most of us find the value of "things" in our lives is related to how much it costs. Everything in your post, cylon, sounded like you were wondering if you had the paid the cost to get the thing of the value. And I talk about having to have an emotional or physical cost involved for me to feel paid about getting paid what I would consider a lot of money in my entry there.
So there's a few things here: 1. If the "cost" of something is an innacurate measure of its value, then what is? In terms of finances, impaul (in the article linked in my entry) suggests charging what the market will pay. The other solution is what cylon and Abraham-Hicks suggest which is that just existign is also doing and by just existing, you have paid the "cost" of having abundance.
2. Theoretically, then, along with the assumption that there is no such thing as scarcity and it is all abundance, it would be relatively easy to achieve anything you wanted, just by changing the way you perceive the "cost" required for something. IE, if, mentally, the cost of getting 5 dollar was the same as 5000 dollars (which would be paid by your just existing), you should be able to manifest 5000 dollar easily now.
3. The credit for this part goes to ALG in one of his old posts he said that all you have to do is be bold and assertive and decide strongly that you want something, since it all costs the same to the universe. The only limitation is YOU.
Thoughts?