Let us use the example of a person resisting constructive feedback 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 feedback for personal growth and development.
2. Mental formations (sankhara): Due to ignorance, the person has formed habitual patterns of resisting feedback and being defensive when receiving criticism.
3. Consciousness (viññana): The persons consciousness is conditioned by these mental formations, making them prone to experiencing resistance to feedback.
4. Name and form (nama-rupa): The persons body and mind (psychophysical constituents) manifest in a way that is susceptible to resistance to feedback.
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 receives constructive feedback that challenges their beliefs, opinions, or way of doing things.
7. Feeling (vedana): The person experiences an unpleasant feeling as a result of the feedback, such as embarrassment, shame, or anger.
8. Craving (tanha): The person develops a desire to avoid the unpleasant feeling and to maintain their sense of self-image as competent or successful.
9. Clinging (upadana): The persons attachment to their self-image and avoidance of feedback intensifies, and they cling to their resistance and defensiveness as a way of protecting their ego.
10. Becoming (bhava): This clinging to resistance reinforces the persons habitual patterns and karmic tendencies, perpetuating the cycle of defensiveness and avoiding feedback.
11. Birth (jati): The person behaves defensively or dismissively when receiving feedback, reinforcing the cycle of mental formations and karmic consequences.
12. Old age and death (jara-marana): The persons resistance to feedback, if left unaddressed, can lead to missed opportunities for growth and development, 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 resistance to feedback. By understanding the dependent origination of resistance and recognizing the interdependence of the Twelve Links, a person can cultivate mindfulness and work towards breaking the cycle of defensiveness, leading to greater personal growth and development.

How to break cycle at each point:

Here is how to break the cycle at each point of resistance to feedback in the context of Dependent Origination:

1. Ignorance (avijja): One can break this cycle by cultivating mindfulness and developing an understanding of the importance of feedback for personal growth and development. By recognizing the benefits and long-term consequences of constructive feedback, the individual can overcome any ignorance and become receptive to feedback.

2. Mental formations (sankhara): The individual can break this cycle by becoming aware of their habitual patterns of resistance and defensiveness and working to change these behaviors. By recognizing that these patterns are driven by ignorance and creating new habits that promote openness and receptivity, the mental formations can be transformed into more constructive patterns.

3. Consciousness (viññana): By becoming mindful of their resistance to feedback and its effects on their consciousness, the individual can work to develop a more supportive and self-aware mental state. Through mindfulness practices such as meditation and introspection, the individual can begin to recognize and transform their habitual patterns of resistance.

4. Name and form (nama-rupa): The individual can become aware of how their resistance to feedback manifests in their body and mind and work to change these patterns. Developing a more supportive and open attitude towards feedback can help to change the individuals psychophysical constituents and promote greater well-being and personal growth.

5. The six sense bases (salayatana): By becoming more mindful of how each sense organ interacts with the external world, the individual can become more receptive to feedback and develop a more accurate understanding of their own capabilities.

6. Contact (phassa): The individual can overcome the unpleasant feelings associated with receiving feedback by cultivating an attitude of openness and receptivity. Recognizing that feedback is an opportunity for growth and development, rather than a threat to ones self-image, can help the individual to let go of their resistance and move towards greater personal growth.

7. Feeling (vedana): By developing a more constructive attitude towards feedback, the individual can lessen the impact of unpleasant feelings associated with feedback. Awareness of such feelings and developing a sense of equanimity towards them can help in overcoming the tendency to hold onto them.

8. Craving (tanha): The individual can break the cycle by recognizing that their desire to avoid unpleasant feelings is an obstacle to growth and development. By allowing themselves to experience unpleasant feelings and recognizing them as opportunities for growth, individuals can begin to overcome their craving for comfort or mastery and develop greater resilience.

9. Clinging (upadana): The individual can break the cycle of clinging by focusing on developing the skill of absorbing and responding to feedback with an open mind instead of entangling with the craving to avoid and defend the self-image.

10. Becoming (bhava): Changing the habit of defending the self-image can counteract the tendency towards habituation towards defensive patterns, leading to a new mode of becoming that is more supportive of personal growth and development.

11. Birth (jati): With the development of receptive and open-minded attitudes towards feedback, individuals can break the cycle of reinforcing defensiveness and resistance when receiving feedback, and as a result, can come into a new mode of behaviors based on openness.

12. Old age and death (jara-marana): By overcoming resistance to feedback, individuals can avoid missed opportunities for growth and development and move towards greater well-being and personal progress.