Listener question: safety

Listener question: 

‘It really makes sense that this body here would move out of the way of whatever would damage it....the form will do what is necessary [in that moment] to survive.  And it can do this without any concept of self, any concept of past or future, any concept of separation.

Our concept of self is not what is keeping us safe, keeping harmful others at bay.  Response is happening regardless of the idea of self.’ [taken from SANE: getting real with reality]

Would this apply to the damage of rejection and the threat to survival it poses, or is that a concept that only a separate self can come up with?