Resistance and safety: listener question

A fellow participant in the Circles course posted an exploration and noted this statement: "If the system believed that the Awareness that I AM is prior to the ideas of threat and safety, then ALL experience would be welcome."

This sounds like passivity, as though if someone were to physically attack us we would welcome the attack experience, rather than the body moving out of danger or fighting back. Can you speak more if this is a paradox that "resistance" doesn't mean defending the body from harm?

thank you!