Lets use the example of a person experiencing invalidation to illustrate the Twelve Nidanas of dependent origination.
1. Ignorance (avijja): The person lacks understanding of the true nature of reality, including the importance of validation and the potential suffering caused by invalidation.
2. Mental formations (sankhara): Due to ignorance, the person has formed habitual patterns of seeking external validation and feeling the effects of invalidation.
3. Consciousness (viññana): The persons consciousness is conditioned by these mental formations, making them prone to experiencing invalidation.
4. Name and form (nama-rupa): The persons body and mind (psychophysical constituents) manifest in a way that is susceptible to the effects of invalidation.
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 a situation or stimulus that triggers invalidation through their sense bases (e.g., being dismissed or ignored by others).
7. Feeling (vedana): The person experiences an unpleasant feeling as a result of the contact with invalidation, such as feeling unworthy or unseen.
8. Craving (tanha): The person develops a desire for external validation and to avoid the feeling of invalidation.
9. Clinging (upadana): The persons attachment to their craving and desire for validation intensifies, making them feel stuck and unable to find alternate means of validation.
10. Becoming (bhava): This clinging to validation reinforces the persons habitual patterns and karmic tendencies, perpetuating the cycle of craving and clinging.
11. Birth (jati): The persons, self-doubt, and insecurity manifest in the form of a cycle of seeking validation from external sources, perpetuating the cycle of mental formations and karmic consequences.
12. Old age and death (jara-marana): The persons, self-doubt, and insecurity, if left unaddressed, 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 arising and perpetuation of invalidation. Understanding the dependent origination of invalidation and recognizing the interdependence of the Twelve Links can help a person cultivate self-awareness, self-love, and self-validation as a means of breaking the cycle of suffering and finding freedom from negative consequences.

How to break cycle at each point:

To break the cycle at each point related to the example of invalidation:
1. Ignorance: Practicing mindfulness and cultivating wisdom can help break the cycle at this point. By understanding the nature of the mind and the importance of validation and self-care, one can reduce the influence of ignorance.

2. Mental formations: By becoming aware of ones habitual patterns of seeking external validation and developing a practice of self-validation and self-love, one can address and weaken the influence of mental formations.

3. Consciousness: By practicing mindfulness and cultivating awareness of ones habitual thought patterns, one can reduce the influence of mental formations on consciousness.

4. Name and form: Practicing mindfulness of the body and mind can help reduce identification with them and the influence of negative thought patterns related to self-worth and validation.

5. The six sense bases: By practicing restraint of the senses, one can reduce exposure to situations that trigger invalidation and the associated suffering.

6. Contact: By being mindful and recognizing invalidation as a trigger for suffering, one can develop a response that reduces the suffering, such as through self-validation and self-care.

7. Feeling: Practicing mindfulness and cultivating equanimity can help reduce reactivity to unpleasant feelings associated with invalidation.

8. Craving: Developing a practice of self-validation and self-love can reduce the attachment and craving for external validation.

9. Clinging: By developing self-confidence and alternative means of validation, one can reduce clinging to external validation.

10. Becoming: This step can be addressed by breaking the cycle of craving and clinging, reducing the influence of past negative karmic tendencies and reinforcing positive ones.

11. Birth: By cultivating self-love and self-validation, one can stop reinforcing negative patterns and instead establish new, positive ones.

12. Old age and death: By breaking the cycle of suffering, one can reduce the potential for physical, mental, and emotional suffering related to self-worth and validation.