The main purpose of this note is to propose viscosity approximation methods which amount to selecting a particular fixed-point of a given nonexpansive self mapping in a general Hilbert space. The connection with the selection principles of Attouch, in the context of convex minimization and monotone inclusion problems, is made and an application to a semi-coercive elliptic problem is then stated. Key words: nonexpansive mappings, fixed-points, monotone operators, iterative methods, convex optimization, selection, penalty ...