If an event is not great, the balancing required is slight. If it is momentous, then it may take days, years, even lifetimes for things to return to an even keel. Actually, without these slight imbalances, there could be no movement in life. It is being off balance that keeps life changing. Total centering, total balance would only be stasis.
All life is continual destruction and healing, over and over again.
That is why, even in the midst of an extreme situation, the wise are patient.