When everything is off-kilter, with too much going on (cf. troppo), we don’t want to just manage the conflicting and excessive forces; we want to change the situation. We’d rather be on the wave than managing our intake of sand and saltwater.
Once upright, it’s lots of little adjustments that keep up upright, whether we’re standing or surfing (or unicycling). The balance we seek in our lives is not something to be achieved, but something we want an opportunity to do.
Once we’re up, balance is a verb, not a noun.