Lets use the example of excessive denial to illustrate the Twelve Nidanas of dependent origination.
1. Ignorance (avijja): The person lacks understanding of the true nature of reality, including the reality of their own emotions and experiences.
2. Mental formations (sankhara): Due to ignorance, the person may have formed habitual patterns of denying or repressing their emotions or experiences, even when they are causing harm.
3. Consciousness (viññana): The persons consciousness is conditioned by these mental formations, making them prone to denial and repression.
4. Name and form (nama-rupa): The persons body and mind (psychophysical constituents) manifest in a way that is susceptible to denial and repression.
5. The six sense bases (salayatana): The persons sense organs (sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, and mind) interact with the external world.
6. Contact (phassa): The person encounters situations or stimuli that trigger emotions or experiences that they deny or repress.
7. Feeling (vedana): The person experiences unpleasant feelings as a result of the emotions or experiences they are denying or repressing.
8. Craving (tanha): The person develops a desire to avoid or escape from the unpleasant feelings associated with acknowledging their emotions or experiences.
9. Clinging (upadana): The persons attachment to their denial and repression intensifies, perpetuating the cycle of avoidance and denial.
10. Becoming (bhava): This clinging to denial and repression reinforces the persons habitual patterns and karmic tendencies.
11. Birth (jati): The persons denial and repression manifest in the form of unhealthy coping mechanisms or patterns of behavior that perpetuate suffering and harm.
12. Old age and death (jara-marana): Continued denial and repression of emotions and experiences can lead to physical, mental, and emotional suffering and perpetuate negative consequences in future situations or even future lives.
In this example, we can see how the Twelve Nidanas apply to the perpetuation of excessive denial. By recognizing the interdependence of the Twelve Links and working towards greater self-awareness and acceptance, a person can break the cycle of denial and cultivate greater well-being and freedom from suffering.

How to break cycle at each point:

To break the cycle at each point in the context of the illustration of Excessive Denial:

1. Ignorance (avijja): The person can break the cycle of denial at this point by developing self-awareness and gaining insight into their own patterns of behavior. By acknowledging and accepting their emotions and experiences, they can overcome ignorance and begin to break free from habitual patterns of denial.

2. Mental formations (sankhara): By cultivating wholesome mental states and developing positive intentions, the person can reduce the influence of negative mental formations and develop new patterns of thought and behavior.

3. Consciousness (viññana): Through mindfulness meditation and other contemplative practices, the person can develop greater awareness of their own mental states and experiences, reducing the influence of negative patterns of consciousness and developing greater freedom and clarity of mind.

4. Name and form (nama-rupa): By recognizing the impermanence and interdependence of mind and body, the person can disengage from identification with these aspects of self and develop greater equanimity and non-attachment.

5. The six sense bases (salayatana): By developing restraint of the senses and cultivating mindfulness of their input, the person can reduce the potential for craving and attachment to sensory experiences.

6. Contact (phassa): By developing mindfulness of the contact between the senses and their objects, the person can cultivate greater awareness of the interdependent nature of sensory experience and reduce the potential for craving and attachment.

7. Feeling (vedana): By developing mindfulness of feelings, the person can learn to respond to them in more skillful ways, reducing the potential for craving and attachment.

8. Craving (tanha): Through mindfulness, insight, and wise reflection, the person can develop the ability to recognize and reduce craving, breaking free from unhealthy patterns of desire and attachment.

9. Clinging (upadana): By cultivating non-attachment and seeing through the illusion of a fixed self or identity, the person can reduce clinging to unwholesome patterns of behavior and develop greater freedom and ease.

10. Becoming (bhava): Through ethical conduct and the development of positive mental states and intentions, the person can break free from karmic tendencies and cultivate wholesome patterns of becoming.

11. Birth (jati): By recognizing and working towards acceptance and self-awareness, the person can break free from habitual patterns of behavior that perpetuate suffering and harm.

12. Old age and death (jara-marana): By developing insight into the impermanence and interdependence of all phenomena, the person can see through the illusion of a fixed self and develop the ability to let go and accept the natural cycles of life and death.